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Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC), often colloquially called Bored Apes or Bored Ape is a non-fungible token (NFT) collection built on the Ethereum blockchain with the ERC-721 standard. The collection features profile pictures of cartoon apes that are procedurally generated by an algorithm. The parent company of Bored Ape Yacht Club is Yuga Labs. [1]
The Great Ape Project (GAP), founded in 1993, is an international organization of primatologists, anthropologists, ethicists, and others who advocate a United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Great Apes that would confer basic legal rights on non-human great apes: bonobos, chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans.
The Great Apes Survival Partnership (GRASP) is a UNEP and UNESCO-led World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) Type II Partnership, established in 2001, that aims to conserve the non-human great apes (chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas and orangutans) and their habitats—primarily forested tropical ecosystems that provide important services to humanity, through pro-poor conservation and ...
The species Gigantopithecus blacki, which once lived in southern China, represents the largest great ape known to scientists — standing 10 feet tall (3 meters) and weighing up to 650 pounds (295 ...
Natural history is a difficult thing to conceptualize. You’ve got eons of undocumented progress, like the evolution of many species. Take, for example, the Australopithecus, an ancient great ape ...
Some researchers believe that it is a candidate for common ancestor to the great ape clade, or is at least closer than any previous fossil discovery. [1] Others suggest it being a pongine, [2] or a dryopith. [3] On 16 October 2023, scientists reported the facial reconstruction of the great ape. [4] [5]
Standing at 9 feet tall and weighing up to 660 pounds, Gigantopithecus blacki was the largest primate to walk the Earth. The giant ape — an herbivore with a fondness for fruit — appeared in ...
Ape Cognition and Conservation Initiative is a great ape sanctuary and scientific research facility in Des Moines, Iowa.The facility was announced in 2002 and received its first ape residents in 2004, conceived of as the Great Ape Trust, [1] or Iowa Primate Learning Sanctuary, [2] launched in part by the primatologist Sue Savage-Rumbaugh and Des Moines businessman Ted Townsend.