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ape

Primate of the family Pongidae, closely related to humans, including gibbon, orang-utan, chimpanzee, and gorilla.

The earliest known ape is believed by US researchers to have lived 20 million yeas ago in Uganda. Morotopithecus was about the size of a modern chimpanzee.



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With a start he sat up to see a huge, anthropoid ape squatting at his side, inspecting him intently.
And as he watched her that afternoon, and wondered, a young bull ape who had been lazily foraging for food beneath the damp, matted carpet of decaying vegetation at the roots of a near-by tree lumbered awkwardly in Teeka's direction.
Here's the divining ape and the show of the Release of Melisendra just coming.
 
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