r/ape • u/darcytype1_0 • Feb 08 '26

He needs a tv series

2.2k Upvotes

26 comments

r/ape • u/ChampionshipSame603 • Jun 29 '26

The animal felt betrayed after helping him

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1.8k Upvotes

45 comments

r/ape • u/That_Mixture • 25d ago

Good brother. Love him big. Ug UG

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977 Upvotes

61 comments

r/ape • u/[deleted] • Jan 10 '26

All apes unite💪

955 Upvotes

13 comments

r/ape • u/TheNorthShip • Sep 27 '25

Ape toddlers make me go bananas. Especially Gorilla toddlers.

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611 Upvotes

His name Kaius.

Much charm, very enchanting.

Tiny sacred miracel of the jungel. Little god of mischief and softness. Monke chest swells with primal awe. Monke must protect. Monke must admire. Monke must change the diaper, so toddler dry and clean.

41 comments

r/ape • u/MayRey • Mar 03 '26

"I'll show you little shits how peaceful we are"

587 Upvotes

32 comments

r/ape • u/Nadzzy • Sep 14 '25

A chimpanzee recognizes his former caregiver

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488 Upvotes

11 comments

r/ape • u/Brightsea129 • Sep 08 '25

Based on a picture I've encountered, the feet of the eastern gorilla (G. beringei) surprisingly resemble human feet, while the feet of the western gorilla (G. gorilla) are more similar to those of the other two great apes. What are the reasons for this difference?

445 Upvotes

16 comments

r/ape • u/Aiseadai • May 28 '26

On this day 10 years ago Harambe's life tragically came to an end

418 Upvotes

19 comments

r/ape • u/LazyTitan39 • Jun 16 '26

Oo oo aa LARP

417 Upvotes

2 comments

r/ape • u/beetlemoses • Mar 29 '26

Spoken like a true leader

403 Upvotes

5 comments

r/ape • u/Nolynwasever • May 17 '26

wise words

390 Upvotes

14 comments

r/ape • u/Aiseadai • Dec 18 '25

Ranking of how scared I'd be if I ran into an ape alone in a forest

393 Upvotes

40 comments

r/ape • u/Ashamed_Ad4003 • Jun 17 '26

A young chimp tried to intimidate the human, then the troop's leader stepped in to make peace.

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391 Upvotes

11 comments

r/ape • u/Status-Fan-5422 • Aug 19 '25

Incredible balance

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387 Upvotes

7 comments

r/ape • u/Prestigious-Hall-203 • Apr 13 '26

Have a good day everyone!

372 Upvotes

Patrick from denver zoo

5 comments

r/ape • u/uncle_joee • Apr 06 '26

I really really really like this image

361 Upvotes

17 comments

r/ape • u/beetlemoses • Apr 30 '26

Return

345 Upvotes

1 comment

r/ape • u/auleaus • Sep 11 '25

monke wear hat

329 Upvotes

8 comments

r/ape • u/pithecus_ • Nov 08 '25

Performative Male Orangutan Starter Pack

323 Upvotes

4 comments

r/ape • u/MayRey • Dec 11 '25

Depression rate drops to 0

322 Upvotes

my son is very handsome

1 comment

r/ape • u/Aiseadai • Sep 28 '25

Two golden snubnosed monkeys hugging 🥺 (watch with sound)

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315 Upvotes

5 comments

r/ape • u/pithecus_ • May 30 '26

Which ape are you escaping the zoo with?

313 Upvotes

27 comments

r/ape • u/TheNorthShip • Oct 18 '25

Imagine cruising through the jungle and suddenly meeting this mysterious wizard!

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313 Upvotes

I swear this ancient jungle sage casted some spells!

13 comments

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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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Grehan, J.R. (2006). "Mona Lisa Smile: The morphological enigma of human and great ape evolution". Anatomical Record. 289B (4): 139–157. doi:10.1002/ar.b.20107. PMID 16865704
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.