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Just positing a question/theory about primates/apes.

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It was specifically a video about the primate or ape Gigantopithecus. Now, something that caught my fancy, that was stated by the reactionist/YouTube personality, was that this ape, this early hominid if you would, which died out just prior to the arrival of humans or because of the arrival of humans. And I am completely intrigued.

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Honey, I Shrunk The Dinosaurs!

10,000 Birds

So, for example, humans are apes. If we assume (probably incorrectly) that of apes and monkeys, they all descended from a monkey like ancestor, than apes are monkeys. and contains apes is referenced to indicate the complete clade.

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Kinabatangan – Borneo’s Mighty River

10,000 Birds

Can’t do a post on Kinabatangan without the amazing Bornean endemic Probosis Monkey. Trips apes Birding Borneo' There were lots of other amazing birds and animals, but don’t take my word for it, head out there and check it out for yourself! Peace is a river to yourself in the evening.

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Potpourri of Amazing Bird Science

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That means crows join humans, apes and monkeys in exhibiting advanced relational thinking, according to the research. From Science Daily : Crows have the brain power to solve higher-order, relational-matching tasks, and they can do so spontaneously, according to new research. Ifrasound waves are cool.

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H. J. McCloskey on Animal Rights

Animal Ethics

Thus, whilst research on chimpanzees, monkeys, and many other animals, reveals a significant degree of rationality which provides an important ground for justified moral demands that they be better treated than they now are, the degree and kind of rationality fall far short of that necessary for moral judgment and moral self-determination.

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The Geladas of Ethiopia

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Their scientific name is Theropithecus gelada, the former word meaning “beast-ape” in Greek. In fact, Geladas so seldom climb trees that we actually witnessed several big males falling out and others being too boisterous and breaking off massive branches, with both the branch and the monkey hitting the ground rather solidly!

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

To the Editor: Re “An Ape Types in Iowa” (column, Aug. 9): Gail Collins writes: “Human-ape conversation was a very hot topic back in the late 1960s, when researchers first taught a chimpanzee named Washoe to use sign language. The Great Ape Trust is the only place in America where this kind of research still goes on.”