Learn About Apes
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Because humans and gorillas are so closely related, diseases can be transmitted from one to another.
The amount of identical DNA in chimpanzees and humans range from 94.6% to 99.4%.
Because humans and gorillas are so closely related, diseases can be transmitted from one to another. This is the reason for glass cages at zoos and animal parks.
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The Siamang is a gibbon and like the latter, it is an ape, not a monkey. The chief characteristics distinguishing apes from monkeys are the absence of a tail, their more or less upright posture and the high development of their brain. (Gorillas, chimpanzees and orangutans are also apes.)
The Siamang is always black in color, with reddish-brown eyebrows. It differs from other gibbons in that it has a webbing between the second and third toe. The largest of the gibbon family, Siamangs are also the best at walking on two legs.
Like other gibbons, they have tough, horny pads on their buttocks known as ischial callosities. Since Siamangs and Gibbons build no sleeping nest, the pads help them spend a comfortable night seated on tree branches safe from predators.
Male and female are similar in size, growing to 30-35 inches in length and weighing approximately 23 pounds.
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- The bonobo's similarity to humans has long been recognized by the indigenous people who have resided with bonobos for thousands of years. Their legends tell of a bonobo saving a man's life, how the bonobos showed man what food was available in the forest and how bonobos have tried to become human.
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