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| The great apes (family PONGIDAE) include the gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos, and orangutans. | The lesser apes (family HYLOBATIDAE) include the gibbon and siamang. | |||
GORILLA The largest ape, a shy but social vegetarian, from Africa. There are three subspecies, the western lowland gorilla, the endangered mountain gorilla, and the eastern lowland gorilla. |
CHIMPANZEE A large, brown-to-black, very intelligent tree-dwelling ape from Africa with a hairless face, large ears and hands (for knuckle-walking). Bonobos, rare "pygmy chimps," are close relatives of chimps from the Congo. |
ORANGUTAN A rare, large, tree-dwelling ape with long arms from Borneo and Sumatra. |
GIBBON A rare, small, slender, long-armed tree-dwelling ape from Asia that is incredibly acrobatic. |
SIAMANG A rare, black, noisy gibbon ape from Sumatra and Malaysia with some webbed digits and a throat sac. |
| A cladogram of the greater apes; a branching diagram that depicts species divergence from common ancestors. |
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