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Apes are intelligent.

Of Apes and Men

Humans come from apes.

Humans descend from apes.

What kind of apes are those? Those aren't apes, they're our new neighbors!

The apes groom each other.

The Rights of Apes and Humans

Have you seen Planet of the Apes?

Have you seen Planet of the Apes?

Have you seen Planet of the Apes?

Elaine Morgan says we evolved from aquatic apes

WildLink International, in collaboration with Oxford University, launched their ambitious International Barbary Lion Project with the aim of identifying and breeding Barbary lions in captivity for eventual reintroduction into a national park in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco.

Keeping great apes in captivity will be allowed for purposes of conservation only, and then under optimal conditions for the apes.

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Jane Goodall on what separates us from the apes

Learning became reinforced. Bands of apes ventured into the open.

Guano Apes is a band formed in 1994 in Göttingen, Germany.

It is also possible that one or more of these species are ancestors of another branch of African apes, or that they represent a shared ancestor between hominins and other apes.

The coccyx is a vestigial, that shows the common ancestry of mankind and apes.

Don't be ridiculous! We are not descended from apes, we only have a common ancestor.

Proud Like a God is the debut album of the alternative rock band Guano Apes.

Well, not quite. Because Darwin was talking about our distant ancestry, our common ancestry with apes.

It merely asserts that the case for such rights is strongest in respect to great apes.

Dad, Tom said humans descended from apes. He certainly did. However, our ancestors were great kings.

From there, it is not uncommon to hear the conclusion that we are nothing but chimpanzees (and fated to be aggressive, or to possess whatever attributes are being imputed to apes these days), or that apes merit human rights.

But that is irrelevant to the merits of the case for granting basic rights to the great apes.

After several centuries studying apes, we are familiar with every subtle difference in form between our species and theirs.

Chimpanzees, bonobos, and gorillas have long term relationships, not only between mothers and children, but also between unrelated apes.

The Great Ape Project seeks to change the way we think about great apes, and ultimately, about animals in general.

We can gain some zoological perspective on what that number really means by comparing another species to apes and humans.

Nor does it rule out euthanasia if that is in the interest of individual apes whose suffering cannot be relieved.

But the only European biomedical research that has used great apes recently is the Biomedical Primate Research Centre at Rijswijk, in the Netherlands.

Recognizing the rights of great apes does not mean that they all must be set free, even those born and bred in zoos, who would be unable to survive in the wild. Nor does it rule out euthanasia if that is in the interest of individual apes whose suffering cannot be relieved.

There's few animals I think elephants and apes can do that kind of thing but there are very few animals who can do that.

Thus, there is no European medical research currently being conducted on great apes, and one barrier to granting them some basic rights has collapsed.

For example, in a 2005 book, Benton wrote The apes, Hominoidea, today include the gibbons and orang utan ... the gorilla and chimpanzee ... and humans .

In another case, a criminal court in the city of Giza acquitted journalists Hany Salah el Deen and Mosad Al Barbary, who were arrested for their coverage of a pro Morsi sit in at Raba'a Al Adawiya square in Cairo.

It also calls on the government to adopt, within a year, legislation to prohibit potentially harmful experiments on great apes that are not in their interests.

Moreover, it recommends that Spain take steps in international forums and organizations to ensure that great apes are protected from maltreatment, slavery, torture, being killed, and being made extinct.

Amy O'Toole Thank you, Beau. We thought that it was easy to see the link between humans and apes in the way that we think, because we look alike.

What extending basic rights to great apes does mean is that they will cease to be mere things that can be owned and used for our amusement or entertainment.

They who were condemned by God, and on whom fell His wrath, and those who were turned to apes and swine, and those who worship the powers of evil.

But the corresponding area is larger also in the left brain of great apes, further indicating that the Broca's region evolved first for gestural communication and only later for speech.

Just as some humans are unable to fend for themselves and need others to act as their guardians, so, too, will great apes living in the midst of human communities.