How to Use great ape in a Sentence

great ape

noun

• Most of the great apes in the study lived in Gabon and the Republic of the Congo.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 26 Apr. 2018
• And this is the most endangered great ape in the world.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 23 May 2018
• That brings to eight the number of great ape species alive today.
  — Karen Kaplan, latimes.com, 3 Nov. 2017
• The teeth were compared with those of modern great apes.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 15 July 2019
• Disease ecologists warned that the virus might spread to the great apes.
  — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2020
• What would turn the descendants of a wolf and a great ape into best friends?
  — Alison Gopnik, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2023
• The great ape’s immense strength is in full force as the man is unable to break free, and is pulled closer to the cage.
  — Lawrence Richard, Fox News, 8 June 2022
• To get around this, the St. Louis Zoo built special gutters where the great apes slept, which would route the urine outside.
  — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 15 Dec. 2017
• Goodall’s work opened the world’s eyes to our closest great ape relatives.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Jan. 2020
• The great ape’s immense strength is showcased as the man is unable to break free and keeps getting pulled closer to the cage.
  — Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY, 8 June 2022
• The western lowland gorilla, one of four subspecies of the great ape.
  — NBC News, 26 Jan. 2022
• In some key ways, the structure of an Australopithecine’s brain looked a lot like that of modern great apes.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 14 May 2018
• As of this week, these orangutans are being recognized as a distinct species of great ape.
  — Karen Kaplan, latimes.com, 3 Nov. 2017
• Fiona, gorillas and great apes – missed the company, too.
  — Sarah Haselhorst, Cincinnati.com, 10 June 2020
• The great ape appeared to be trying to help the warden, who was standing in a muddy, flowing river.
  — Emma Reynolds, CNN, 7 Feb. 2020
• Conservationists hope the find—the first new species of great ape to be discovered since the bonobo in 1929—will help raise awareness of the plight of orangutans.
  — Erik Stokstad, Science | AAAS, 2 Nov. 2017
• As the largest great ape sanctuary in the world, our costs are practically endless.
  — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 1 Aug. 2019
• From Grins to Smiles The great apes go a step further: Their grin, although still a nervous signal, is more positive.
  — Frans De Waal, Discover Magazine, 31 May 2019
• Powell also points to a lack of good data on great apes, like gorillas and orangutans, in the data set.
  — Cathleen O'Grady, Ars Technica, 23 Aug. 2018
• Unlike parrots, elephants and Hoover the harbor seal, the great apes are not adept at mimicking sounds or even the basics of human speech.
  — Quanta Magazine, 22 Mar. 2016
• Kühl’s local observations turn out to apply across most of Africa’s great ape range.
  — Rachel Nuwer, Scientific American, 17 Nov. 2021
• The researchers spent a massive amount of time observing and recording the great apes in the wild – some 3,800 hours in Borneo and Sumatra within range of the animals.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 29 June 2023
• Orangutans would also pull on each other’s hair, which Laumer suggests is because their hair tends to be longer than the other great ape species.
  — Jack Guy, CNN, 14 Feb. 2024
• The great apes don’t seem to vocally, but might use a gestural equivalent.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 26 June 2023
• For research published today in the journal Primates, researchers watched 40 videos of great apes spinning around just to get dizzy.
  — Sara Kiley Watson, Popular Science, 14 Mar. 2023
• While monkeys were unable to think too far into the future, great apes like chimps, bonobos and orangutans showed the ability to plan.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 14 July 2017
• But in older hominins like A. sediba and H. erectus, that's not the case; their order of adult tooth growth looks more like modern great apes.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 10 Apr. 2020
• Gibbons are long-armed, tree-dwelling primates that are much smaller than the great apes (such as gorillas, orangutans and humans).
  — Amina Khan, latimes.com, 22 June 2018
• Surprising new research has revealed that the colorful great apes suckle for up to eight years, and in some cases longer.
  — National Geographic, 17 May 2017
• More studies need to be done to see whether such short-term interactions, like sharing a video, strengthen great ape relationships in the long run, the team notes.
  — Katie Camero, Science | AAAS, 16 July 2019

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024