Orangutans are great apes native to Asia and live in the rainforests of Borneo and Sumatra. They have long limbs and special feet with long toes for grasping branches ...

Hominidae is the primate family otherwise known as ‘the great apes’. Humans belong in this family group along with bonobos, chimpanzees, gorillas and orang-utans. The great apes are the ...

We share more than 97% of our genetic makeup with primates such as chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans. But that doesn’t ...

Great apes have a cerebellum that is on average 45% bigger than a monkey’s. Experiments showed chimps and orang-utans using up to 5 different tools to finally get the right one which enabled ...

Though we don't look much like them, we humans have a lot in common with bonobos and the three other great apes—the chimpanzee, gorilla, and orangutan. Compared to the lesser primates ...

Adult great apes exhibit enhanced memory for social events, remembering towers built by a human hand better than those constructed by a mechanical claw. This effect is attributed to increased ...

A project testing great apes’ puzzle-solving abilities could offer insight into the mental abilities underpinning language. Solving the puzzles involves the same sorts of mental abilities ...

The Miocene Epoch extended from about 23 million to 5 million years ago. Miocene great apes belong to an evolutionary family that includes modern chimps, gorillas, orangutans and humans.