Talk:List of apes

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[edit] Sultan

can someone verify "Sultan" as a famous ape? and if so, what kind was he?

He was a lab chimp who exhibited behaviour that some have interpreted as intelligent tool use: [1] --Paul A 08:49, 20 Feb 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Bonobos

Bonobos are a kind of chimpanzee, so I propose we move bonobos to the chimp page.--Mishac 08:40, 20 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Or maybe we should bow to the inevitable and merge the ape and chimp pages. If we take all the chimps (including Sultan and the bonobos) off this page, there's not going to be much left... --Paul A 08:49, 20 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Bonobos are a separate species from chimpanzee - so probably better to leave them in two places. Flit 15:14, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Article title and merges

I plan to remove the word "historical" from the article name. See Talk:List_of_historical_animals for further discussion. Jay 08:39, 12 Mar 2004 (UTC)

I've merged [[List of historical chimpanzees]] back into [[List of historical apes]]. --Paul A 04:25, 28 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Earlier discussion from earlier articles merged into this one can be found at Talk:List of famous chimpanzees and Talk:List of historical chimpanzees. -- Infrogmation 05:13, 28 Apr 2004 (UTC)

I have moved the article from "List of historical apes" to "List of apes", as suggested back in March. -- Infrogmation 16:33, 28 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Should the famous apes page [2] be merged into this one? Some animals occur there but not here. Flit 15:14, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] What about Gibbons and Siamangs?

They're apes, not monkeys, and not included on the list... Nate 22:34, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

This is a relevant point. Currently this list so called ape only appears to include great apes not lesser apes. If it is intended to only include great apes then it should be renamed. If it is intended to include both, then it should be expand or at least the opening paragraph should be re-worked to mention it includes lessers apes. Nil Einne 21:05, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
I've added gibbons to the list (n.b. siamangs are gibbons) Nil Einne 05:33, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Passion and her daughter

Jane Goodall reported in a National Geographic documentary that there were these 2 canaballistic chimpanzees; who killed baby chimps and ate them (shared the meat between Passion and her own daughter). She may have killed more than 10 baby chimps. This shows canabalism; so maybe these two chimps should be listed here? They seem to be pretty popular in this regard. There was another chimp, I believe it was the daughter or sister of Melissa the chimp, who tried to beg the humans for help while they were observing Passion & her daughter try and kill Melissa's newborn baby (while Melissa was attempting to defend it). 165.196.139.24 16:33, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Baboons

As far as I can tell from wikipedia, baboons are not considered apes even tho the word ape may have originally refered to baboons. As such I removed this line:

Nil Einne 21:03, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Update: I added this to the list of monkeys Nil Einne 21:21, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
Correct, baboons are not now considered as apes (though bonobos of course are). seglea 22:16, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fabian?

I removed the following (sorry I somehow got confused with baboons when I originally removed it):

  • Fabian - bonobo, 3D renderer

As it looks like vandalism to me. I'm highly doubt that a true bonobo 3D renderer exists and suspect it's someone's idea of a 'joke' on someone named Fabian who is a 3D renderer but not a bonobo. A quick Google also doesn't find anything. 21:38, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 50 Cent

someone do something about the 50 cent thing. unless i'm missing something, it's just offensive.

[edit] Micaco Tiao

I changed the text. While I don't know the subject at all, I highly doubt he had a habit of throwing excrement at politicians. Most likely, he had a habit of throwing excrement at visitos, which occasionally included politicians and when it did it got in to the news. Perhaps he was particularly annoyed by large parties or cameras or something so politician tended to get a lot of it, but this would be because of the fact they're in a large party or have cameras following them, not because they're politicians. BTW, I assume he's dead from the past tense that was used? Nil Einne 19:01, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Humans and apes

An anon user [3] removed the bit about not including humans. I've re-added it. I also added the non-human part to the first line. Perhaps if we say non-human apes we don't really need to clarify but IMHO it's better if we do both. However I will not object if you remove the explaination but not the non-human (or vice versa). And if you don't think humans are apes try reading the article Nil Einne 19:28, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Finster

I moved Finster to the monkey list. Based on the fact that Finster appeared in the movie Monkey Trouble and also appeared as a monkey in another movie, I'm assuming Finster is a monkey but of course, it wouldn't be surprising if Finster was in fact a ape of some sort (probably a chimp). If someone can confirm that would be great Nil Einne 04:05, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Lancelot Link

Anyone know the names of the chimpanzee actors in the children's TV show Lancelot Link? Only two (Tongo and Debbie) are mentioned in that article. — Loadmaster 17:07, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

As to the list of "Famous Chimps", why are the Marquis Chimps not on that list? Didn't they occasionally appear on the Ed Sullivan Show in the 50's & 60's? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 165.155.110.74 (talk) 13:45, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Albino Chimpanzee

I was reading the article about the albino gorilla. Why is'nt there one about the albino chimpanzee "Pinkie", http://www.tacugama.com/pinkie.html ?