You will want to find out how our heroes pull of a narrow escape
Find out how they manage to defeat Claw -- using their special gifts and with the help of an old friend!
"Claw is one scary giant ape!"
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Claw: the Giant Ape (Beast Quest, No. 8)
Amazon Price: $4.99 (as of 12/03/2009)
Fetching blurbs now... please stand byLearn more about apes...
An ape is any member of the Hominoidea superfamily of primates, and includes humans. Due to its ambiguous nature, the term ape is less suitable as a means of describing taxonomic relationships.
Under the current classification system there are two families of hominoids:
*the family Hylobatidae consists of 4 genera and 14 species of gibbon, including the Lar Gibbon and the Siamang, collectively known as the lesser apes.
*the family Hominidae consisting of chimpanzees, gorillas, humans and orangutans collectively known as the great apes.
A few other primates, such as the Barbary Ape, have the word ape in their common names (usually to indicate lack of a tail), but they are not regarded as true apes.
Except for gorillas and humans, all true apes are agile climbers of trees. They are best described as omnivorous, their diet consisting of fruit, including grass seeds, and in most cases other animals, either hunted or scavenged, along with anything else available and easily digested. They are native to Africa and Asia, although humans have spread to all parts of the world. A group of apes is called a shrewdness.http://www.hintsandthings.co.uk/kennel/collectives.htm
Most ape species, except humans, 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.
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