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Tickled chimp! Adorable moment 11-week-old ape Maisie laughs for the very first time at Maryland Zoo

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Tickled chimp! Adorable moment 11-week-old ape Maisie laughs for the very first time at Maryland Zoo By Aliki Kraterou For Mailonline Published: 09:32 GMT, 19 November 2020 | Updated: 09:32 GMT, 19 November 2020 This is the adorable moment an 11-week old baby chimp laughs for the first time while getting a tickle from her zookeeper … Read more

Conservation: World’s rarest ape could be saved from extinction by artificial rope bridges

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Artificial rope bridges could help save the world’s rarest primate — the Hainan gibbon, Nomascus hainanus — by helping them cross gaps in their forest habitat. Experts who suspended ropes some 30 feet above ground across a damaged patch of forest 52 feet wide have filmed the gibbons using the bridge for the first time. The … Read more

Fossilised APE tooth unearthed in India belongs to the gibbon ancestor

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A newly discovered fossilised ape tooth found in India is the earliest known ancestor of the modern-day gibbon and it lived 13 million years ago, study finds.  The fossil belongs to a new species of ape named Kapi ramnagarensis and was discovered by fossil hunters at the Ramnager dig site in northern India. Experts from … Read more

Woman presses lips against glass of a chimpanzee’s zoo enclosure and the ape kisses her right back

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Pucker up! Chimpanzee kisses a woman through the glass of its zoo enclosure Scene caught on film at ABQ Biopark in Albuquerque, New Mexico, last week Video shows woman, filmer’s wife, pressing her lips against enclosure glass Chimp then immediately reciprocates and then leans back to look at her By Harry Howard For Mailonline Published: … Read more