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Great Apes
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Citizen Ape: The Fight for Personhood for Our Closest Relatives
The great ape personhood movement aims to extend legal personhood to apes, a distinction that recognizes these non-human animals as beings with the capacity to hold both rights and duties.
A Small Hydroelectric Dam Could Be the Beginning of the End for the World’s Rarest Ape
With no more than 800 individuals left in a fragile habitat, the Tapanuli orangutan could face extinction not long after we became aware of its existence.
How Do Gorillas Grieve?
An anthropologist answers how one gorilla's death may affect those around him.
The Monkeys Know What’s Up
Self-awareness isn’t what sets up apart from other animals, even if a lot of early science assumed that to be the case. Monkeys, too, demonstrate metacognition, and they may have other kinds of awareness as well.