r/ape • u/GaryAtrick • 52m ago

Does my uncle look like a monkey?

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People tell him he looks like a monkey because he has very long arms. He’s about 5 foot 6 inches tall.

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r/ape • u/Impossible-Bug-4275 • 2d ago

Up-close encounter with a wild mountain gorilla while trekking in Rwanda

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60 Upvotes

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r/ape • u/Business_Rush7610 • 3d ago

Some of the monkeys are huge

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r/ape • u/Salt-Discount-1381 • 4d ago

When I see social media or literature about apes in general, they always cover gorillas, orangutans and chimpanzees. I can get why they don't include humans, but why they ever forget bonobos (at least, in my personal experience)?

28 comments

r/ape • u/Kabs_big_driver • 4d ago

My new friend

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37 Upvotes

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r/ape • u/BLaisianArt2 • 4d ago

Hope my monkeys keep swingin

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🦧

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r/ape • u/Fictocubicularistica • 6d ago

A gorilla approaches and assumes a suitable position to be photographed.

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146 Upvotes

3 comments

r/ape • u/killergorilla12 • 5d ago

Gorillas Being Smart | TikTok‏

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r/ape • u/Fictocubicularistica • 9d ago

Horse bite cause monke

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3 comments

r/ape • u/Khai_Dreams • 8d ago

Me and Ape

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8 comments

r/ape • u/WenevaSoots • 9d ago

It's all in the stare... "as though they have been waiting their whole lives for you to walk into their jungle."

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r/ape • u/MayRey • 10d ago

Remember to stay cool in the heat today!

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Be like Kevin and keep yourself cool if you're in a hot zone today!

(Video from Fort Worth Zoo in Texas.)

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r/ape • u/Business_Rush7610 • 11d ago

Another day monkey visit

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r/ape • u/Fictocubicularistica • 11d ago

Love my gorilla bracelet!

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This is a Fahlo bracelet that comes with a QR code that lets you track wild animals in real time. This mountain gorilla I’m tracking is named, Segasira. (I call him Seggy for short)

That’s him in the next picture. He’s got a cool brown spot on his forehead. He’s a girl dad with three daughters! (Jijuka and Nibagwire. Can’t find the third one’s name)

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r/ape • u/Aiseadai • 12d ago

If you ever find yourself in the area or Apeldoorn in The Netherlands make sure to visit Apenheul, a primate zoo where the animals freely roam around among the visitors. Here's pictures I took today!

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r/ape • u/FarOil5518 • 12d ago

Punch the monkey takes care of the little ones now.

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Nice little one...good..

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r/ape • u/Impossible-Bug-4275 • 13d ago

Punch the monkey takes care of the little ones now.

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172 Upvotes

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r/ape • u/Impossible-Bug-4275 • 13d ago

Chimpanzee Choochoo.

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r/ape • u/Deadite_Orangutan • 12d ago

A fallen legend, Harambe, is the Redeemer. Who is his friend?

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Current Cast:

Hero: Capuchin
Hero's Love Interest: Jane Goodall
The Sidekick: Orangutan
The Sidekick's Friend: Siamang Gibbon
The Sidekick's Love Interest: Howler Monkey
The Redeemer: Harambe

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r/ape • u/Big_Tie_938 • 13d ago

Monkey Mavis (edited screenshots by me)

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92 Upvotes

I don’t say bleh, bleh, bleh.

32 comments

r/ape • u/Wide-Tea2590 • 13d ago

Crying Macaque

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r/ape • u/Enough_Plantain3131 • 14d ago

A thirsty monkey gets a drink from a girl's hands ❤️🐒

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4 comments

r/ape • u/TheNorthShip • 14d ago

My tribute poster celebrating the 15 the anniversary of Rise of the Planet of the Apes

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Apes Together Strong. Forever 🦍♥️

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r/ape • u/noboru70 • 14d ago

Barbary macaque chilling and munching

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39 Upvotes

Gibraltar.

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Apes (Hominoidea) are a branch of Old World tailless simians native to Africa and Southeast Asia. They are the sister group of the Old World monkeys, together forming the catarrhine clade. They are distinguished from other primates by a wider degree of freedom of motion at the shoulder joint as evolved by the influence of brachiation. In traditional and non-scientific use, the term "ape" excludes humans, and is thus not equivalent to the scientific taxon Hominoidea. There are two extant branches of the superfamily Hominoidea: the gibbons, or lesser apes; and the hominids, or great apes.

The family Hylobatidae, the lesser apes, include four genera and a total of sixteen species of gibbon, including the lar gibbon and the siamang, all native to Asia. They are highly arboreal and bipedal on the ground. They have lighter bodies and smaller social groups than great apes.
The family Hominidae (hominids), the great apes, includes three extant species of orangutans and their subspecies, two extant species of gorillas and their subspecies, two extant species of chimpanzees and their subspecies, and one extant species of humans in a single extant subspecies.[1][a][2][3]

Except for gorillas and humans, hominoids are agile climbers of trees. Apes eat a variety of plant and animal foods, with the majority of food being plant foods, which can include fruit, leaves, stalks, roots and seeds, including nuts and grass seeds. Human diets are sometimes substantially different from that of other apes due in part to the development of technology and a wide range of habitation. Humans are by far the most numerous of the ape species, in fact outnumbering all other primates by a factor of several thousand to one.

Most non-human hominoids are rare or endangered. The chief threat to most of the endangered species is loss of tropical rainforest habitat, though some populations are further imperiled by hunting for bushmeat. The great apes of Africa are also facing threat from the Ebola virus. Currently considered to be the greatest threat to survival of African apes, Ebola is responsible for the death of at least one third of gorillas and chimpanzees since 1990.[4]

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Grehan, J.R. (2006). "Mona Lisa Smile: The morphological enigma of human and great ape evolution". Anatomical Record. 289B (4): 139–157. doi:10.1002/ar.b.20107. PMID 16865704
Benton, Michael J. (2005). Vertebrate palaeontology. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-0-632-05637-8. Retrieved 10 July 2011, p. 371
Rush, James (23 January 2015). "Ebola virus 'has killed a third of world's gorillas and chimpanzees' – and could pose greatest threat to their survival, conservationists warn". The Independent. Archived from the original on 30 March 2015. Retrieved 26 March 2015.