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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.
Ouranopithecus is a genus of extinct Eurasian great ape represented by two species, Ouranopithecus macedoniensis, a late Miocene (9.6–8.7 mya) hominoid from Greece [1] and Ouranopithecus turkae, also from the late Miocene (8.7–7.4 mya) of Turkey.
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]
At least 400 fossil specimens represent Australopithecus afarensis.This species had human-like and apelike features. The snout, dentition, and dental arch resemble an ape.
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 ...
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 great ape (formerly pongid) skull contains the following features that are absent or less pronounced in humans: a sulcus behind the brow ridges; prognathism; a protruding occipital region; large, bony eye sockets; a large nasal opening; constriction just behind the orbital region; stout facial bones; a diastema; a simian shelf; a larger ...
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 ...