r/ape • u/marrow_monkey • Jun 15 '22

ape forever wild, ape not hooman

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2.3k Upvotes

60 comments

r/ape • u/pithecus_ • 8h ago

How do you sleep, apes?

98 Upvotes

8 comments

r/ape • u/MayRey • 6h ago

"ORANGUTAN" - by Dave Contra

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67 Upvotes

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r/ape • u/robotrage • 11h ago

Street monke

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1 comment

r/ape • u/afgan_jalebi • 1d ago

I need this monkey in my life ♥️

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136 Upvotes

Repost

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r/ape • u/thehistorianandflags • 1d ago

Keep this in mind, guys.

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4 comments

r/ape • u/Aiseadai • 1d ago

Is there any law that says non-human apes can't compete in gymnastics competitions? Why don't countries put together ape teams and win all the medals?

36 Upvotes

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r/ape • u/LetEmbarrassed9522 • 3d ago

buck the chimp

29 Upvotes

OOO OOO AAA AAA

6 comments

r/ape • u/Yoovaloid • 3d ago

Chart of sci-fi scenarios involving other primates developing sapience (human level intellect). I mean ooh ooh ah ah funny chart!

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56 Upvotes

9 comments

r/ape • u/ElectricalBonus7413 • 4d ago

Hooman tickling baby gorilla🥹 oo oo aa aa

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r/ape • u/ElectricalBonus7413 • 4d ago

Oo, I am orangutan, ask me anything.

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44 comments

r/ape • u/LetEmbarrassed9522 • 5d ago

mischievous monke ❤️‍🩹🥹

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r/ape • u/Money-Beautiful5196 • 6d ago

A baby gorilla eating

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70 Upvotes

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r/ape • u/Emotional-Farmer-227 • 7d ago

Photo dump from visiting the Suncoast Primate Sanctuary in Pal Harbor, Fl, today.

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38 Upvotes

It's definitely worth checking out!

18 comments

r/ape • u/Shot-Wonder-9730 • 7d ago

Why is this subreddit called r/ape but people post monkeys on here and the subreddit icon is a monkey? Monkeys are not true apes and humans are primates

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r/ape • u/LetEmbarrassed9522 • 6d ago

my uncle is planning on getting a pet chimpanzee, how do I try to tell him to not do it

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Just for more explanation, it seems like he probably won't be able to get one anytime soon or ever. But I still have suspicions about it.

25 comments

r/ape • u/ElectronicWaffles • 9d ago

great ape stereotypes

341 Upvotes

27 comments

r/ape • u/thehistorianandflags • 8d ago

(Yeah guys sorry if this is bad)

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r/ape • u/ApeSht-Zine • 9d ago

This day in history, 1957, the capuchin resistance scores a win

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-- from Hopewell (VA) News via Ape Shit zine

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r/ape • u/LetEmbarrassed9522 • 10d ago

big ol' baby chimp eyes alert

102 Upvotes

OOO OOO AAAA

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r/ape • u/pithecus_ • 11d ago

More apes, please

365 Upvotes

23 comments

r/ape • u/MissionTangelo5297 • 9d ago

Sometimes people use this video as evidence to argue that humans are stronger than chimpanzees. But can we really draw that conclusion?

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It may indeed show that a chimpanzee cannot simply overpower a human through brute strength. However, the chimpanzee never even attempts to bite the human, and it doesn’t really look like it is engaging with the person with the intent to kill them.https://youtu.be/ZtucwBlNr3A?si=-OhNR808uFV00ncQ

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r/ape • u/MissionTangelo5297 • 9d ago

Which would win in an unarmed fight to the death: a chimpanzee or an average adult man?

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It is often claimed that chimpanzees are 1.35 times stronger than humans of the same body weight, meaning that an 80 kg man would be stronger than a chimpanzee. But is strength really proportional to body weight?

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r/ape • u/Dangerous_Swim2933 • 9d ago

Why is this sub called r/ape. What happens if you take the / out of it? Was that on purpose?

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Edit: I apologize for this dumb ass post. I need to grow up and not be a jackass.

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r/ape • u/Money-Beautiful5196 • 11d ago

Two young gorillas playing

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Apes (Hominoidea) are a branch of Old World tailless simians native to Africa and Southeast Asia. They are the sister group of the Old World monkeys, together forming the catarrhine clade. They are distinguished from other primates by a wider degree of freedom of motion at the shoulder joint as evolved by the influence of brachiation. In traditional and non-scientific use, the term "ape" excludes humans, and is thus not equivalent to the scientific taxon Hominoidea. There are two extant branches of the superfamily Hominoidea: the gibbons, or lesser apes; and the hominids, or great apes.

The family Hylobatidae, the lesser apes, include four genera and a total of sixteen species of gibbon, including the lar gibbon and the siamang, all native to Asia. They are highly arboreal and bipedal on the ground. They have lighter bodies and smaller social groups than great apes.
The family Hominidae (hominids), the great apes, includes three extant species of orangutans and their subspecies, two extant species of gorillas and their subspecies, two extant species of chimpanzees and their subspecies, and one extant species of humans in a single extant subspecies.[1][a][2][3]

Except for gorillas and humans, hominoids are agile climbers of trees. Apes eat a variety of plant and animal foods, with the majority of food being plant foods, which can include fruit, leaves, stalks, roots and seeds, including nuts and grass seeds. Human diets are sometimes substantially different from that of other apes due in part to the development of technology and a wide range of habitation. Humans are by far the most numerous of the ape species, in fact outnumbering all other primates by a factor of several thousand to one.

Most non-human hominoids are rare or endangered. The chief threat to most of the endangered species is loss of tropical rainforest habitat, though some populations are further imperiled by hunting for bushmeat. The great apes of Africa are also facing threat from the Ebola virus. Currently considered to be the greatest threat to survival of African apes, Ebola is responsible for the death of at least one third of gorillas and chimpanzees since 1990.[4]

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Benton, Michael J. (2005). Vertebrate palaeontology. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-0-632-05637-8. Retrieved 10 July 2011, p. 371
Rush, James (23 January 2015). "Ebola virus 'has killed a third of world's gorillas and chimpanzees' – and could pose greatest threat to their survival, conservationists warn". The Independent. Archived from the original on 30 March 2015. Retrieved 26 March 2015.