Are these all apes?

Question

humans

chimps

gorillas

orang-utans

gibbons

are these all apes?

thanks

Answer 1

take a good look around at  the people on the streets, how many knuckle walkers do you see

Answer 2

No. They are all primates. Chimps, gorillas, and orangutans are all apes, but Gibbons are monkeys.

Answer 3

It mostly depends on how you choose to define apes.  Gorillas are the only true apes; but all those species are primates.

If I can remember the classification levels:

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Vertebrates

Class:?

Order:?

Family: Primate

Genus:

Species

All of their Genus(es, or Genii) are different from each other- but we do belong to one family.  :-)

Answer 4

They are all considered apes.  All of them are in the superfamily Hominoidae (apes), of which there are two families:  Hylobatidae (gibbons) and Hominidae (orangutans, gorillas, chimpanzees and humans).

Answer 5

Yup.  All the above but the gibbons are great apes, while the gibbons and some other species are lesser apes.  Heh, you can tell we're great apes because we gave the group a cooler name.

Answer 6

If the primate doesn't have a tail, it is more than likely an ape. All primates have eyes on the front of their faces instead of the side like other mammals and all primates have opposable thumbs (thumbs that can touch every other finger). All primates have 5 fingers with fingernails. Gibbons are lesser apes and gorillas, humans, orangutans, and chimpanzees are greater apes. All apes are naturally omnivorous. Chimps and humans share around 98% of their DNA.

Answer 7

No.  Humans are not; gibbons are not.  In fact, the only apes in the list are gorillas.