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great ape

NOUN
  1. any of the large anthropoid apes of the family Pongidae

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  • Other traits shared with modern great apes were a large degree of hand rotation, and a distinctly ape-like skull.
  • The two clusters evolved by duplication of an ancestral gene cluster before the divergence of the human and great ape lineages.
  • Even the illegal commercial hunting of great apes and other animals for food - known as the bushmeat trade - would not be nearly as widespread if not for the logging and mining roads that are cut through forests, allowing access to previously remote habitat of gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos and orangutans. The Guardian World News
  • Examinations of the limb skeletons of these two apes have revealed additional great ape-like characteristics.
  • On watching the footage, you start to believe that elephants may indeed be as intelligent as the great apes.
  • It means that four of the six great apes are one step away from extinction in the wild. Times, Sunday Times
  • This is true far more widely than for great apes alone. Times, Sunday Times
  • The gelada (T. gelada) is the only cercopithecoid examined that retains the potential for exonization, while all Great Apes retain this potential.
  • This is true far more widely than for great apes alone. Times, Sunday Times
  • This is true far more widely than for great apes alone. Times, Sunday Times
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