APES THROUGH THE AGES (2024)

FAQs

What are the four great apes? ›

There are four types of Great Apes – the orang-utans, gorillas, chimpanzees and humans. There are two living species of orang-utan – the Bornean Orang-utan, Pongo pygmaeus, and the Sumatran Orang-utan, Pongo abelii. Orang-utans live in dense rainforests of Borneo and Sumatra in South-east Asia.

Great apes include gorillas, chimpanzees (which include bonobos), orangutans and humans. Our closest relative is the chimpanzee - we share more than 98 percent of our DNA with these great apes!

Apes are primates belonging to the superfamily Hominoidea. There are approximately 22 species of apes including gorillas, orangutans, chimpanzees, bonobos, gibbons and humans. Except for gorillas and humans, apes are agile climbers. Most nonhuman ape species are rare or endangered.

A reboot film series commenced in 2011 with Rise of the Planet of the Apes, which was followed by Dawn of the Planet of the Apes in 2014 and War for the Planet of the Apes in 2017.

Studies suggest the following reasons why orangutans are the most intelligent of all the great apes: The orangutans are more patient and reflective than all the other great apes.

Great Ape 5: Human (hom*o sapiens)

There are 0 subspecies of humans. We diverged from hom*o erectus, the most closely related human species, about 500,000 years ago, and from the other great apes between 5 and 7 million years ago.

"Ape" has been used as a synonym for "monkey" or for naming any primate with a human-like appearance, particularly those without a tail. Biologists have traditionally used the term "ape" to mean a member of the superfamily Hominoidea other than humans, but more recently to mean all members of Hominoidea.

Two African apes are the closest living relatives of humans: the chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) and the bonobo (Pan paniscus).

Few now doubt that our genus evolved from a species of australopith, although exactly which one is a matter of debate. It was probably Lucy's species Australopithecus afarensis, but a South African species, Australopithecus sediba, is also a candidate.

Humans and monkeys are both primates. But humans are not descended from monkeys or any other primate living today. We do share a common ape ancestor with chimpanzees. It lived between 8 and 6 million years ago.

What is the rarest ape species? ›

Only 800 Tapanuli orangutans are left in their home in the forests of Sumatra in Indonesia. Tapanuli orangutans are the world's rarest apes.

But for a clear understanding of how closely they are related, scientists compare their DNA, an essential molecule that's the instruction manual for building each species. Humans and chimps share a surprising 98.8 percent of their DNA.

Noa reunites with his clan and is introduced to the apes' self-proclaimed king, Proximus Caesar. Proximus has enslaved other clans, forcing them to work on opening the vault so he can access the human technology locked inside.

Caesar was 18 years old in dawn of planet of the apes so if war take place like 2 years later, he was 20 when he died.

Two African apes are the closest living relatives of humans: the chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) and the bonobo (Pan paniscus).

Since gorillas don't have tails (this is starting to feel like a math problem), they are classified as apes. Other apes include orangutans, chimpanzees, bili apes and bonobos. Sadly, there are only an estimated 100,000 gorillas left in the world. Closely related to humans, they share 98% of our human DNA.

The Hominidae (/hɒˈmɪnɪdiː/), whose members are known as the great apes or hominids (/ˈhɒmɪnɪdz/), are a taxonomic family of primates that includes eight extant species in four genera: Pongo (the Bornean, Sumatran and Tapanuli orangutan); Gorilla (the eastern and western gorilla); Pan (the chimpanzee and the bonobo); ...

The great apes are more diverse – and more threatened – than many of us ever expected. We recognize 14 kinds of great ape: four subspecies of gorillas, four chimpanzee subspecies and the singular bonobo, all found in Africa, plus five kinds of orangutans known from tropical Asia.