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As our closest relatives, apes are some of the most fascinating species on the planet. Theses intelligent creatures are quite different visually but share many of the same behavioural traits. In the video, we’ll dive into the main differences and similarities between the 4 types of apes; chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans & gibbons.
00:00 Reproduction & Life Span/Cycle
02:50 Taxonomy, Location, Population & Conservation
06:08 Physical Characteristics
12:30 Ecology, Diet & Movement
18:02 Behaviour
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Encyclopaedia Britannica
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Animal Diversity
https://animaldiversity.org/
National Geographic
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/
WWF
https://www.worldwildlife.org/
IUCN Red List
https://www.iucnredlist.org/
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/
Chimpanzee Diet
https://www.nonhumanrights.org/blog/chimpanzee-breakfast/
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1407524111
Chimps vs Bonobos
www.bonobos.org/post/how-to-distinguish-bonobos-from-their-close-cousins-chimpanzees
Chimpanzee Hierarchy & Behaviour
https://news.janegoodall.org/2018/07/10/top-bottom-chimpanzee-social-hierarchy-amazing/
https://pasa.org/awareness/bonobos-and-chimpanzees-which-ape-is-which/
https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/mammals/facts-about-chimpanzees/
Bonobo communities
https://qz.com/1033621/scientists-assumed-that-patriarchy-was-only-natural-bonobos-proved-them-wrong/
Chimpanzee baby care
https://www.wildchimps.org/about-chimpanzees/how-they-grow-up.html
Gorilla Social Groups
https://gorillafund.org/dian-fossey/social-groups/
https://gorillafoundation.nl/social-structure/
Differences in Gorilla subspecies
https://www.wildgorillasafaris.com/difference-between-mountain-and-lowland-gorillas/
Gorilla diet
https://safaripartner.com/blog/what-gorillas-eat
Gorilla social bonding
https://gorillafund.org/uncategorized/gorilla-affection-2/
Orangutan ecology
https://neprimateconservancy.org/sumatran-orangutan/
Orangutan colour
https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/mammals/facts-about-orangutans/
Tapanuli Orangutan Morphology
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(17)31245-9
Orangutan social behaviour
https://nationalzoo.si.edu/animals/news/why-do-orangutans
Orangutan territory
https://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/blog/orangutan-fact-sheet/
Orangutan breeding
https://www.orangutan.org.uk/orangutans
Orangutan communication
https://www.borneonaturefoundation.org/scientific-research/httpoutrop-blogspot-com201601how-do-orangutans-communicate-html/
Orangutan tool usage
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00872-3
Gibbon social structure
http://www.gibbons.de/main2/08teachtext/factgibbons/gibbonfact.html
https://carta.anthropogeny.org/moca/topics/nuclear-families
Gibbon reproduction
https://www.gibboncenter.org/gibbon-basics.html
Gibbon sleeping
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9730212/
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The title makes me annoyed because, there are 5 groups of apes, not just 4. It is well understood that humans are indeed apes, but you are ignoring them. It's sort of like saying birds are not dinosaurs, or a greater extent reptiles.
Can you do a video on the classification of big sheep
Thank you for this. I love great apes!!!
You forgot to mention one thing about the behaviour of the bonobo. Bonobos are well known to have sex for pleasure, only one other primate has this behaviour and it's quite obvious which one it is.
When I look at bonobos compared to chimpanzees, they appear to have long hair on their scalps, which makes them look like they didn't have a hair cut.
Humans have been foreshadowed in the video by saying 'habit destruction'.
Who the hell eats apes?
Keep doing what you’re doing, the views will come
Bonobo: make love not war!
Chimp: War… War never changes.
Orangutans are my favourite animals of them all. Big adult male orangutans with flanges are so majestic.
Always been a fan of orangutans, love seeing something so related to us, yet so different! (Also poor gibbons aren’t allowed to join the great ape club)
I hope it will come a day that no big primates will be in the zoo but only out in their natural habitat they belong .
So sad how every video of animals is full of "endangered due to habitat loss and poaching". I wish humans could collectively hurry up and realise that the beauty of the wilderness means more than however much money they could get through destruction.
So in other words the top 4 apes.
Great video!
Im having trouble choosing my favorite ape but its or orangutans or chimpanzees (which also include bonobos)
I love orangutans because the babies are mega cute and the relationship between the mother and son/daughter is both wholesome and fascinating, but i also love chimps because their babies are cute and their mini societies and primitive politics really interest me.
Gibbon are also very cute, the babies are ugly but in a cute way and i love how acrobatic they are and their sexual dimorphism, and the air pouch that Siamang have reminds me of frogs so thats a bonus
Another amazing video!
Basically, the ones in Africa are darker and more physically powerful while the ones in Asia are more colorful and skinnier.
I'm outta the loop but Siamang's were separate from Gibbon's and the Bili Ape being another species of Chimp unless lumped as Common chimp sub-species but you just said the Gorilla's were 4 but called them sub-species. I have issues with my Math and Primatology here.
I've always adored Gibbons. I had a very special experience at the Knoxville zoo as a kid where I kinda snuck around this wooden fence and started grooming the females back. That was so special to me because I learned later that primates do this as a symbol of bonding. Ever since then I've loved them.
This always makes me wonder how the first humans were actually like outside of the archeological record.
Just found your channel and now it’s definitely one of my new favorites! Keep up the good work
An interesting note about mountain gorillas: The earliest stories of them by African tribes reached the West in 1861, but no European would see one live until the year 1902.
Orangugang represent 🦧
Why are the African apes black, and the Asian apes yellow? Evolution seems kind of racist.
Monke :^)
orangutans are so cool and smart, i wish i was an orangutan because they are so cool and awesome
Would love to see my League of Legends teammates to be included in a follow up video
No Sasquatch? Disappointed 😔
Hey I don’t see bigfoot on here come on everyone knows there’s 3 diff types of Bfoot
Must say as an animal enthusiast I LOVE your detailed explanations off multiple species, you do it in a way which is easy to understand especially for someone who is autistic like me
Do Gibbons really not reach sexual maturity until they're about middle age? 🤯😲
Pls do a top ten largest owls video!
Can you make a video talking about different monkeys?
18:39 19:06 Bonobos? More like BonoBASED. This is what we need more of in human society.
Sooooo… no bonobos🤔🤔🤨
Take your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty Human
Human? Apes were never human nor were human ever Apes. GG
delightful
Huh? All apes are non humans 🤔😂
funny monke
All apes and monkeys found in south east Asia came from Africa, when it was joined to Asia. Sahara desert and Saudi Arabia had extended periods of lush green periods, 5-8 millions of years ago, when these apes and monkeys must have entered and spread all the way to south east Asia, where the largest variety known as Gigantopithecus that evolved in Laos, if not at other areas. Hominins also jumped from Africa and Asia. Though human bones can be found from various periods of life in Africa, not much is found in Asia. Evolution of humans and Homo Sapiens does have a history of migration over a wide range.
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I was fortunate enough on my honeymoon in 2009 to visit a family of mountain gorillas in Rwanda. That experience will stay with me forever. From the silverback lying only a few metres from us, just keeping tabs on his family to the 2 youngsters playing in the trees to the juvenile having a massive sulk slightly apart from the family, looked just like a child who has just been told they can’t have that toy they wanted. Amazing creatures, so much like us.
That’s racist
That last part really got me I thought of a bunch of kids hooping and hollering in a tree and that's what we used to do on our farm in Ada Oklahoma we used to sit in the apple orchard or the pair Orchard up in the trees and just hoping holler and Howl at the Moon and that's what those Gibbons sounded like to me sounded Almost Human