About Apes
- hair instead of fur.
- fingernails instead of claws.
- opposable thumbs.
- higher brain-to-body size ratio, high level of intelligence.
- prehensility (ability to grasp with fingers and/or toes)
- padded digits with fingerprints.
- binocular vision i.e. both eyes focus on one object (depth perception)
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Chimpanzees and bonobos are the most social, sometimes living in groups of more than 100 animals. However, male adult orangutans live mostly alone. Apes eat ...
Apes are a clade of Old World simians native to sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia, which together with its sister group Cercopithecidae form the catarrhine clade, cladistically making them monkeys. Apes do not have tails due to a mutation of... Wikipedia
Lifespan: Chimpanzee: 39 years, Bonobo: 40 years, and Bornean orangutan: 35 – 45 years
Scientific name: Hominoidea
Height: Bonobo: 3.8 ft., Bornean orangutan: 3.9 – 4.6 ft., and Sumatran orangutan: 4.5 – 6 ft.
Collective noun: band, family, group, and more
Term for young: baby, child, and infant
Class: Mammalia
Source: Wikimedia Foundation
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Apes live in tropical forests in central Africa and Southeast Asia. They are split into two families, great apes and lesser apes.