ISSN: 1939-067X

Journal of Experimental Stroke & Translational Medicine

Species Of Apes

 Apes are a branch of Old World tailless simians native to Africa and Southeast Asia. There are now only about 20 living species of apes and that they are divided into two major groups. These are the: Lesser Apes, containing the gibbons and Great Apes, containing the orang-utans, gorillas, chimpanzees and humans. There are about 14 species of relatively small-bodied apes referred to as Lesser Apes. These are the gibbons, which live in trees, rarely descend to the ground and are active during the day. Gibbons are found within the forests of South-east Asia. The Great Apes are named for their hue bodies. They even have larger brains than other primates. Like Lesser Apes, the good Apes are active during the day. There are four kinds of Great Apes – the orang-utans, gorillas, chimpanzees and humans. Except for gorillas and humans, hominoids are agile climbers of trees. Apes eat a range of plant and animal foods, with the bulk of food being plant foods, which may include fruit, leaves, stalks, roots and seeds, also including nuts and grass seeds. Human diets are sometimes substantially different from that of other apes due in part to the development of technology and a good range of habitation. Humans are by far the foremost numerous of the ape species, actually outnumbering all other primates by an element of several thousand to one.  

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