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The Bili apes, or Bondo mystery apes, were names given in 2003 in sensational reports in the popular media to a purportedly new species of highly aggressive, giant ape supposedly inhabiting the wetlands and savannah around of the village of Bili in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The bonobo (/ b ə ˈ n oʊ b oʊ, ˈ b ɒ n ə b oʊ /; Pan paniscus), also historically called the pygmy chimpanzee (less often the dwarf chimpanzee or gracile chimpanzee), is an endangered great ape and one of the two species making up the genus Pan (the other being the common chimpanzee, Pan troglodytes). [4]
Bili ape, or 'Bondo mystery ape', a large chimpanzee living in Bili Forest Bili light , a medical therapeutic tool to treat newborn jaundice Bili , an ancient Chinese term (traditional: 篳篥; simplified: 筚篥) for the guan , a double-reed woodwind instrument
Ape hybrid could refer to: Koolakamba, legendary chimpanzee-gorilla hybrids; Bili ape, real-life ape with characteristics intermediate between chimpanzees and gorillas; Mangani, fictional ape with similar characteristics as the Bili ape from Tarzan; Hobo, a fictional chimpanzee-bonobo hybrid in the novel Wake; Humanzee, theoretical chimpanzee ...
Gigantopithecus (/ d ʒ aɪ ˌ ɡ æ n t oʊ p ɪ ˈ θ i k ə s, ˈ p ɪ θ ɪ k ə s, d ʒ ɪ-/ jy-gan-toh-pi-thee-kuhs, pith-i-kuhs, ji-; [2] lit. ' giant ape ') is an extinct genus of ape that lived in southern China from 2 million to approximately 300,000 to 200,000 years ago during the Early to Middle Pleistocene, represented by one species, Gigantopithecus blacki. [3]
Ammann started his career as a photographer in the early 1980s in Africa. Initially, he focused on photographing cheetahs, but later turned to work on great apes and conservation issues affecting great apes. Between 1983 and 1986, he set up a luxury eco-tourism camp in the Maasai Mara and another on the Zaire side of the Virunga Mountains.
Sarah (1959–2019)—research chimpanzee whose cognitive skills are documented in The Mind of an Ape; Sultan—chimpanzee, used in classic Kohler tool-use studies; Titus (1974–2009)—gorilla, an extensively observed silverback mountain gorilla; Viki—chimpanzee, one of the first apes used in ape language experiments
It was a great surprise to researchers then when one day, while Matata was away, Kanzi began competently using the lexigrams, becoming not only the first observed ape to have learned aspects of language naturalistically rather than through direct training, but also the first observed bonobo to appear to use some elements of language at all.