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great ape — ► NOUN ▪ a large ape of a family closely related to humans, including the gorilla and chimpanzees … English terms dictionary
great ape — grāt āp n any of the recent anthropoid apes that belong to the family Pongidae and include the gorilla, orangutan, and chimpanzees … Medical dictionary
great ape — great′ ape′ n. mam any of the larger apes, including the gorilla, chimpanzee, and orangutan, but excluding the gibbon … From formal English to slang
great ape — n. any of a family (Pongidae) of primates consisting of the gorilla, chimpanzee, and orangutan … English World dictionary
Great ape — Taxobox name = HominidsMSW3 Groves|pages=181 184|id=12100786] fossil range = Miocene to Recent image width = 250px image caption = Australopithecus africanus reconstruction regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Mammalia ordo = Primates… … Wikipedia
great ape — noun any of the large anthropoid apes of the family Pongidae • Syn: ↑pongid • Hypernyms: ↑anthropoid ape • Hyponyms: ↑orangutan, ↑orang, ↑orangutang, ↑Pongo … Useful english dictionary
Great Ape Project — Founder(s) Peter Singer and Paola Cavalieri Founded 1994 Focus Animal rights … Wikipedia
Great ape personhood — is a movement to create legal recognition of bonobos, common chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans (the non human great apes) as bona fide persons.First stepsOn February 28, 2007 the parliament of the Balearic Islands, an autonomous province of… … Wikipedia
Great ape language — Research into non human great ape language has involved teaching chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans to communicate with human beings and with each other using sign language, physical tokens, and lexigrams; see Yerkish. Some… … Wikipedia
Great Ape Project — Das Great Ape Project (kurz: GAP) ist eine internationale Organisation, hinter der die Idee steht, bestimmte Grundrechte, die derzeit dem Menschen vorbehalten sind, für die Menschenaffen (engl. Great Apes) also Bonobos, Schimpansen, Gorillas und… … Deutsch Wikipedia
Great ape research ban — A great ape research ban, or severe restrictions on the use of non human great apes in research, is currently in place in the Netherlands, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Germany and Austria. Austria is the only country in the world… … Wikipedia
