The length of spine between rib cage and pelvis is much shorter in apes than in monkeys. While apes occur only in tropical or subtropical regions of the Old World, namely Africa and Asia, humans live in all regions of the world.Īs so much information about apes and humans is readily and easily available from other sources, including the World Wide Web, this page on apes has been planned only to illustrate our ape skulls and skeletons so they can be compared to the skulls and skeletons of the other animals in our Collections.Īs the skeleton of a chimpanzee (1) and gibbon (2) to the right show, apes have short backs with wide, barrel-shaped chests and robust pelvic girdles. This website follows the scheme whereby modern humans, Homo sapiens, are assigned to the family Hominidae with the apes. The apes are humans’ closest relatives but the place of humans in the classification schemes of apes is controversial. The family Hominidae comprises the great apes - orang utans, chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas.The family Hylobatidae comprises the lesser apes - gibbons and siamangs, which are highly adapted to an arboreal existence.Within the infraorder Catarrhini, apes and humans are assigned to two families in the superfamily Hominoidea. The name catarrhine literally means ‘drooping nose’. SUBORDER HAPLORHINI INFRAORDER CATARRHINI SUPERFAMILY HOMINOIDEA APES AND HUMANSĪpes are grouped together with Old World monkeys in the infra-order Catarrhini because their nostrils are narrow and close together.
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