There are four species of great apes: bonobos, chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans. With their numbers dwindling in the wild due to habitat loss, here's how you can help save them.

Largest great ape to ever live went extinct because of climate change, says new studySource: AP

This video provides an overview of two great ape species: orangutans and gorillas. It highlights their unique characteristics, behaviors, and habitats. From the intelligent tool use of orangutans to the social dynamics and protective...

The evolutionary origins of speech may be glimpsed in the tool-using abilities of great apes. A project testing great apes’ puzzle-solving abilities could offer insight into the mental abilities underpinning language. Solving the puzzles...

The Last of the Great Apes: In Cameroon there are fears that the practice of eating bushmeat - wild meat hunted in the rainforest, including endangered gorillas and chimpanzees - could trigger a global pandemic of viruses. To understand...

Today we know that humans and chimpanzees share 99% of their DNA and that we have a lot in common. Not just how we look, but how we behave, form groups, defend our turf, and love each other. People didn't always see other...

Whats a biological anthropologist from George Washington University doing teamed with a National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) materials researcher? Together, they study the teeth of great apes to support the theory that...

Here's how you can be a conscious consumer and help save the orangutan, gorilla, bonobo, and chimpanzee.

Learn about the San Diego Zoo's collection of orangutans, western lowland gorillas, and bonobos.

Here's how you can be a conscious consumer and help save the orangutan, gorilla, bonobo, and chimpanzee.

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Probably twice the size of a modern gorilla, Gigantopithecus is the greatest great-ape that ever was. And for us fellow primates, there are some lessons to be learned in how it lived, and why it disappeared.

Discover the Swamp Apes, an initiative where veterans tackle personal challenges by capturing invasive pythons in the Everglades, aiding both mental health and the environment.<br/>

This video provides an informative overview of the differences between apes and monkeys, as well as the distinctions between Old World and New World monkeys. It explores various physical features, such as noses, tails, and hand pads,...

Many birds are capable of complex problem solving, and even language, to a degree that seems too advanced if we just look at brain size. After all, a crow brain and a chimp brain aren’t the same size, yet some birds and great apes have...

This video explores the fascinating world of apes, specifically focusing on the lesser apes known as Gibbons. It delves into their evolutionary history, unique characteristics, and social behaviors, highlighting their intelligence and...

Along with humans, orangutans belong to the Hominidae family tree, which stretches back 14 million years. But it's not just their striking red hair that makes orangutans unique among our great ape cousins. Lu Gao shares some amazing...

Follow along as National Geographic photographer Ronan Donovan hikes through Volcanoes National Park in northwestern Rwanda in search of Dian Fossey’s famed gorillas. ➡ Subscribehttp://bit.ly/NatGeoSubscribe' target='_blank'...

What we call language is something more specific than communication. Language is about sharing what's in our minds: stories, opinions, questions, the past or future, imagined times or places, ideas. It is fundamentally open-ended, and...

The 1973 National Geographic film The Mountain Gorilla documented zoologist Dian Fossey’s study of and interaction with the great apes of Central Africa from 1967 to 1972. ➡ Subscribehttp://bit.ly/NatGeoSubscribe' target='_blank'...

Apes, dolphins and elephants are animals with remarkable communication skills. Could the internet be expanded to include sentient species like them? A new and developing idea from a panel of four great thinkers -- dolphin researcher...

In this video, we look at how humans have been classified among the apes. **Dot Points:** - 4.4.1: humans as primates are classified in the same taxonomic family as the great apes. The species within the family are differentiated by DNA...

Plants are extremely complex and diverse - there are thousands of species. In fact, there are probably somewhere around half a million different species. And these are just the ones we know about - there are no doubt many more that...

Plants are extremely complex and diverse - there are thousands of species. In fact, there are probably somewhere around half a million different species. And these are just the ones we know about - there are no doubt many more that...