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The ape may have suffered from a skewed species identity and forced copulation is a standard mating strategy for low-ranking male orangutans. [116] American animal trafficker Frank Buck claimed to have seen human mothers acting as wet nurses to orphaned orangutan babies in hopes of keeping them alive long enough to sell to a trader, which would ...
Gigantopithecus (/ d ʒ aɪ ˌ ɡ æ n t oʊ p ɪ ˈ θ i k ə s, ˈ p ɪ θ ɪ k ə s, d ʒ ɪ-/ jy-gan-toh-pih-THEE-kəs, -PITH-ih-kəs, jih-; [2] lit. ' giant ape ') is an extinct genus of ape that lived in southern China from 2 million to approximately 300,000 to 200,000 years ago during the Early to Middle Pleistocene, represented by one species, Gigantopithecus blacki. [3]
Chantek (December 17, 1977 – August 7, 2017), [1] born at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center in Atlanta, Georgia, was a male hybrid Sumatran/Bornean orangutan [2] who demonstrated a number of intellectual skills, including the use of several signs adapted from American Sign Language (ASL).
The sub-species Pongo pygmaeus pygmaeus has only around 3,000-4,500 animals left in the wild. At least 2,000 of this number live in Batang Ai National Park and Lanjak-Entimau Wildlife Sanctuary in ...
Humans, great apes, and elephants, species all well known for their high intelligence, are the only others known to have spindle cells. [21]: 242 Spindle neurons appear to play a central role in the development of intelligent behavior. Such a discovery may suggest a convergent evolution of these species. [22]
Hanabiko, nicknamed "Koko" (July 4, 1971 – June 19, 2018) was a female western lowland gorilla born in the San Francisco Zoo [2] and cross-fostered by Francine Patterson for use in ape language experiments.
Subfamily Erinaceinae, various species [66] Silvery mole-rat: 25,000,000 Isotropic fractionator Pallium (cortex) Heliophobius argenteocinereus [46] Wahlberg's epauletted fruit bat: 26,000,000 Isotropic fractionator Pallium (cortex) Epomophorus wahlbergi [41] Cape mole-rat: 26,000,000 Isotropic fractionator Pallium (cortex) Georychus capensis [46]
The bonobo (/ b ə ˈ n oʊ b oʊ, ˈ b ɒ n ə b oʊ /; Pan paniscus), also historically called the pygmy chimpanzee (less often the dwarf chimpanzee or gracile chimpanzee), is an endangered great ape and one of the two species making up the genus Pan (the other being the common chimpanzee, Pan troglodytes). [4]