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Anthropoid Apes
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The Anthropoid Apes
Chimpanzee - Gorilla - Orangutan - Gibbon
Sorry that there are no pages on the other apes but they are all alive and kicking and they are all around you.
As a matter of fact they are the most numerous large mammal species on the planet.
One click a day to save the Primates
Forest Conservation Portal - Ecological Science Based Forest Conservation Advocacy
To understand how humans and the anthropoid apes fit into the Animal Kingdom see classification.
It appears that humans are not some kind of monkey that just swung down from the trees; by the way,
if you don�t have a tail you are not a monkey.
The Chimpanzee & Human Communication Institute
Enter CHCI Here
Our Apes need your help!
Some species of our apes are already in big trouble and their plight is getting worse.
This will only be truly checked, when those who take all our taxes for their mates in the
weapons industry start instead to spend our taxes on our planet instead of their war games;
and stop trying to con the world that they are fighting for peace.
If you think that this view is too simplistic then give us the complicated version and it can go right here.
| Anthropoid Apes |
| The Fossil Anthropoid Ape from Taungs |
| Hominidae � African Great Apes |
| Ape Diets � Myths, Realities and Rationalizations |
| The Apes |
| Bibliography - Gorillas |
Chimpanzees
It appears that biologists are settling on 5 types of chimpanzees.
The Common Chimpanzee
The 1 species and 3 subspecies
Some of these are quite threatened
The nominate species
Central Common or Black-faced Chimpanzee
(Pan troglodytes troglodytes)
The 3 subspecies
Eastern Common or Long-haired Chimpanzee
(Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii)
Western Common or Pale-faced Chimpanzee
(Pan troglodytes verus)
West Nigerian/East Cameroon Chimpanzee
(Pan troglodytes vellerosus)
And 1 species
The Bonobo or Pygmy Chimpanzee
(Pan paniscus)
Chimpanzee Cultures
Experiments on Chimps
It is now believed by scholars that the chimpanzee has at least the intelligence of a two year child and possibly higher.
Would the civilized world accept those hideous experiments that are performed on the hapless chimpanzee to be
performed on a child?
It must be about time that all such experiments are stopped forthwith and any person who tries to justify such
barbaric practices to be exposed for what they are.
Yes, military people and some so-called medical people around the so-called civilized world are performing
disgusting experiments on our distant cousins right now.
Ask your incumbent Prime Minister or President or favourite politician what they think about such practices.
If it is going on in their own country, ask them what they are doing about it?
The response you get will tell you what type of person they really are.
Common Chimpanzee
(Pan troglodytes troglodytes)
This includes the three subspecies, schweinfurthii, verus and vellerosus.
Some populations of these chimps are quite threatened.
Bonobo & Pygmy Chimpanzee
(Pan paniscus)
The very clever chimpanzee that are threatened.
Gorillas
The 1 species and 2 subspecies
With a possible 3rd subspecies
Western Lowland Gorilla
(Gorilla gorilla gorilla)
Eastern Lowland Gorilla
(Gorilla gorilla graueri)
Mountain or Highland Gorilla
(Gorilla gorilla beringei)
Another possible subspecies:
(Gorilla gorilla diehli)
It's Too Cold!
| Gorillas in the Takamanda Forest Reserve - Not the true Highland Gorilla � perhaps another species |
| More on the Gorillas of the Takamanda Forest Reserve |
| Gorilla Journal Archives - Takamanda |
Gorillas General Information
| Gorilla Directory |
| Gorilla Help Site |
| The Gorilla Foundation - Meet Koko, Michael and Friends Here. |
Mountain or Highland Gorilla
(Gorilla gorilla beringei)
Critically Endangered
Lowland Gorillas General
| The Lowland Gorillas |
Eastern Lowland Gorillas
(Gorilla gorilla graueri)
Threatened
Some populations are critically endangered
Western Lowland Gorillas
(Gorilla gorilla gorilla)
Approaching Endangered
| Animal Diversity Web |
| Zoo.org |
| Addressing the Threats to Western Lowland Gorillas - WWF |
| Western Lowland Gorilla - WWF |
| Western Lowland Gorilla � Bronx Zoo |
Orangutans
The 2 recognised species of orangutan
Borneoan Orangutan
(Pongo pygmaeus)
Endangered
Sumatran Orangutan
(Pongo abelii)
Critically Endangered
It appears that illegal logging, Palm oil plantations, corrupt politicians and corrupt military personal
plus a good dash of selfish ignorance is what is wiping out the orangutans and their home.
They are not being wiped out for the purpose of liberating land to feed a starving world;
that is a lie peddled by the pathetic apologists.
Once the land has been laid to waste the general population seldom have access to it; rule of thumb is
that it will be taken over by a corporation for palm oil plantations.
Lesser Apes: Gibbons and Siamangs
(Hylobates)
