Chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans also learn human sign language.

Bonobos are built slightly smaller than the chimpanzee.

Apes.

Now this shows a Bonobo on your right, and a chimpanzee on your left.

(a) The World Atlas of Great Apes and their Conservation which provides a comprehensive overview of what is currently known about all the six species of great apes chimpanzee, bonobo, Sumatran orangutan, Bornean orangutan, eastern gorilla and western gorilla.

So when you compare them to the Bonobo, the Bonobo is a little hairier.

Mr. Wurzel. The female has her first baby when she's 11 or 12.

An ape like me

Someone like me

Let's get that one out of there. How about a chimpanzee?

The GORILLA'S BRIDE

Now, I know that's a dirty word for some people, but we evolved from common ancestors with the gorillas, the chimpanzee and also the bonobos.

And the ones that stayed on in Africa evolved into the gorillas, the chimpanzees and us.

It has also chimpanzees.

Gorilla has got bigger than anybody else.

He's a Bonobo.

The manners of a great big educated ape.

We have eight Bonobos.

Your father is a gorilla.

A great ape on a football field.

Well, good. And old King Louie

You hear it going from one side of the valley to the other, from one group of nests to the next.

He doesn't stand quite as upright.

And the gorilla can't speak. Why?

'A great ape on a football field'.

You see here the work of Ben Fry. This is Human vs. Chimps the few chromosomes that distinguish us from chimps.

Because the chimps have a very promiscuous mating society.

Koko is not an ordinary gorilla.

A great ape on a football field!

So here we are, a chimpanzee using a computer.

And you can come back out through the scary orangutan.

Oh, never mind. Uh, tell him to clear up the mess.

He must have been a very important chimp.

And so, I want to give you a greeting, as from a chimpanzee in the forests of Tanzania Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh!

This shows the Bonobo compared to an australopithecine like Lucy.

It means star in Swahili.

And yet, when you look at the phenotypes, there's a chimp, there's a man they're astoundingly different, no resemblance at all.

Try to imagine a gorilla performing the same maneuver, and you can see that, compared with gorilla, we are halfway to being shaped like a fish.

Ghosts, orangutans, hospitals..

In chimps, by age three, the brain is formed over 90 percent.

Every chimpanzee has his or her own personality.

Chimpanzees don't have a spoken language. We've talked about that.

and make them shake for a bunch of gorillas.

Slim bodied, Bonobos are by nature very gentle creatures.

One discovery was that wild Bonobos often walk bidpedally.