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Крупные человекообразные обезьяны - Russian
URL: http://dit.perm.ru/webdesign/003/10/4/Prim_Homo_big_prim.htm

Научно-популярный сайт, посвященный вопросам происхождения человека (антропогенеза), а также проблемам, связанным с изучением эволюции человека. Информация, представленная на сайте, может быть полезна как школьникам и студентам, так и всем тем, кто интересуется вопросами происхождения человека.

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Nose-picking in the Pongidae - English
URL: http://www.calflora.net/primatenooz/nosepicking.html

Nose-picking and subsequent consumption of nasal detritus are activities that have been widely observed among extant species of pongids, and that appear to be almost instinctive behavior patterns in most, if not all, human groups. Since it has not been recorded in the Cercopithecoidea, it is suggested that it represents a behavioral adaptation that arose some time after the hominoids diverged from the Old World monkeys approximately 20 million years ago.

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Pongidae - English
URL: http://www.biology4kids.com/misc/pongidae.html

Photos.

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Taxonomy of apes and humans - English
URL: http://sayer.lab.nig.ac.jp/~silver/taxonomy.html

Goodman (1999) The natural history of the primates. Groves (1997) Taxonomy and phylogeny of primates. Wilson and Reeder (1993) Mammal species of the world. Nowark (1991) Walker's Mammals of the World Fifth edition. Napier and Napier (1985) The natural history of the primates.

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Great Apes in the Wild - English
URL: http://www.panda.org/resources/publications/species/greatapes/index.htm

The exact numbers of lowland gorillas are not known, but estimates of the western lowland gorilla place it at around 111,000. The eastern lowland gorilla, found only in eastern Zaпre, is believed to number around 10,000. "Guestimates" of chimpanzee numbers vary wildly from 100,000 to 200,000. Bonobos are found only in Zaпre and their numbers are the least known, but it is thought they have halved in the past 20years.

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Great Apes - English
URL: http://www.cogsci.indiana.edu/farg/harry/bio/zoo/pongids.htm

Photos and references.

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Family Pongidae (Great Apes) - English
URL: http://www.geocities.com/robbinknapp/romdap/rpongide.htm

A systematic list of the genera of the family Pongidae (great apes).

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Great Apes Printout- EnchantedLearning.com - English
URL: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/apes/classroom/Greatapescoloring.shtml

The Great Apes include the chimpanzee, bonobo, gorilla, and orangutan. These primates are closely related to humans. Because of loss of habitat, these primates are on the verge of extinction.

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Great Apes - English
URL: http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/walker/primates.pongidae.html

This family of three living genera and four species is found in equatorial Africa and on Sumatra and Borneo. Some authorities, such as Hall (1981), place the great apes in the family Hominidae, along with humans. Andrews and Cronin (1982) suggested an alternative classification by which the living Pongidae would be restricted to Pongo and the Hominidae would comprise two subfamilies: Gorillinae, with Pan and Gorilla; and Homininae, with Homo (and the fossil Australopithecus).

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Pongidae (Great Apes) - English
URL: http://www.thebigzoo.com/zoo/Pongidae.asp

The members of the family Pongidae are referred to as the "great apes". This family contains 4 species. The orangutan is native to Sumatra and Borneo (islands between Australia and Asia). It is believed that a small form of orangutan used to live on the island of Java, but became extinct long ago. The other three species are found in African forests.

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