#APE

[bunjywunjy]

I know having a tail or not is the textbook difference between a monkey or an ape, but are there any non-ape monkeys that similarly lack a tail?

barbary macaques don't have tails! they're also europe's only non-human native primate, hailing from the island of gibralter!

here they are power slamming each other

[caleod]

11-6-24

[babyanimalgifs]

Lowland gorilla at Miami zoo uses sign language to tell someone that he's not allowed to be fed by visitors.

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[vgadvisor]

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

[akeussel]

[crossaik]

watched all the movies recently

[monstatron]

i’ve mostly been keeping my planet of the apes stuff between myself and moots but i couldn’t contain my enthusiasm about proximus and silva :P

enjoy a quick sketch i did to get back into art after not drawing for a bit! and to anyone seeing movie, enjoy! i’m seeing it this friday!

[the2dvgstages]

"Marina Beach Hotel" - EarthBound

[yoshimired]

several years ago I had a terrible relationship-destroying row with a person I cared about very much and for some reason I had the poster for "Dunston Checks In" as my phone wallpaper so every time I looked at my phone in that soul-shattering evening I saw this fuckin ape looking at me while riding a suitcase

[bunjywunjy]

Bunjy, how close to a human liver do you need to have to eat chocolate? Can great apes eat chocolate? Can any other primate?

no, other great apes can't have chocolate, and other primates can't either! you need an actual hominin-line liver to pull this trick off, so humans and human ancestors only as far as primates go.

other primates can and do eat the flesh of the cacao fruit, which chocolate is made from, but chocolate is made from the seeds, aaaand those are where the cacao plant is hiding all of its secret and most potent poisons.

(theobromine. it's theobromine)

were a chimpanzee or smaller monkey to pig out on chocolate or cacao seeds, they could expect to experience hyperactivity, tremors, increased heartrate, seizures, and heart failure. in roughly that order.

"oh god! I should have stopped thirty seeds ago!! why did I do that!!!"

so you know what? sometimes it's good to be a human, actually.

"oh, boy! poison!! my favorite!!!"

humans stand head and shoulders above every other primate on earth when it comes to the enormous variety of foods they are able to eat without getting sick or dying about it!

but also just literally. humans are very tall.

okay that's all, good night love you

[caleod]

1-5-24

[squid-in-a-party-hat]

unlimited power

[goddamnitlopori]

"He was my village"

Raka with his husband village discussing his current reading material, before everything went tits up. I'd like to do more with these two, Raka's one of my faves. And I've yet to see his partner brought to life, unless I've missed something! Flat colour sketch

[n64retro]

Super Monkey Ball Amusement Vision / Sega Gamecube 2001

Gif by @morebuildingsandfood