List of apes

This is a list of non-human apes of encyclopedic interest. It includes individual apes (chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans and gibbons) who are in some way famous or notable.

Ape actors

• Çarli — chimp; starred in the live-action movie The Jungle Book (1994) and in the Turkish television series Çarli before retiring to Monkey World, Dorset, UK.
• C.J. (or Manis; sources differ) — orangutan; played Clyde in the Clint Eastwood action-comedy films Every Which Way But Loose (1978) and Any Which Way You Can (1980).
• Clair — chimp; played Livingston in the movie comedy Delicatessen (1991).
• Evie (short for Evolution) — chimp; played robot dog Daggit in the original 1979 Battlestar Galactica television series.
• J. Fred Muggs (born 1952) — chimp; "co-host" with Dave Garroway on NBC's Today Show in the 1950s.
• Kwanza (aka Kwan) — gorilla; played "Sidney" in the romance movie Return to Me (2000) with Minnie Driver & David Duchovny. Kwan currently lives at Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago.
• Mowgli — chimp; guest on CNBC's Dennis Miller Live and on Monk
• Pankun — chimp; featured in Japanese TV shows "Tensai! Shimura Dobutsu-en" (aka Genius! Shimura Zoo) and the TBS program "Dobutsu Kiso Tengai!" (Unbelievable Animals!) with bulldog James.
• Peggy — chimp; played Bonzo in the 1951 movie comedy Bedtime for Bonzo, co-starring Ronald Reagan. Sequel, Bonzo Goes to College
• Project X ape actors — This 1987 film, a science fiction suspense-drama about military animal experimentation, directed by Jonathan Kaplan, starred Matthew Broderick, Helen Hunt, and a multitude of ape actors:
  • Arthur — chimp; played Winston
  • Clafu — chimp; played Spike
  • Harry — chimp; played Ginger
  • Karanja — chimp; played Goliath
  • Lucy — chimp; played Razzberry
  • Luke — chimp; played Bluebeard
  • Lulu — chimp; played Ethel
  • Mousie — chimp; played New Recruit
  • Okko — chimp; played Goofy
  • Willie — chimp; played Virgil (film's animal star)
• Sam (born 1989) — orangutan; played Dunston in the 1996 movie comedy Dunston Checks In; trained by Larry Madrid
• Zippie — chimp; rollerskater (U.S. television in the 1950s)

Ape actors also appear in the movies Going Ape! (1981), Ed (1996), MVP: Most Valuable Primate (2000), and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001).

Ape artists

• Congo — chimpanzee, abstract impressionist of the late 1950s.
• Koko (born 1971) — gorilla, can communicate with humans through American Sign Language.
• Michael (1973–2000) — silverback gorilla, impressionist painter that was taught American Sign Language by Koko.

Scientific apes

• Ai (born 1976) — chimpanzee; studied by scientists at Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University
• Bonnie — orangutan; began whistling (mimicking an animal caretaker), which is changing ideas about primate sound repertoires.
• Chantek (born 1977) — orangutan; involved with language research and ApeNet language-using great ape ambassador
• Clint — chimpanzee; source of DNA for Chimpanzee Genome Project, Yerkes Primate Center
• Donald — chimpanzee; source of DNA for Chimpanzee genome project
• Enos (died 1962) — chimpanzee; spacefaring, after Ham
• Frodo — chimpanzee; baby-killing "bully", who has attacked Jane Goodall and Gary Larson
• Gon — chimpanzee; source of DNA for Chimpanzee genome project
• Gua — chimpanzee; raised as a child by the Drs. Kellogg alongside their son Donald.
• Ham the Chimp (1956–1983) — chimpanzee; spacefaring, before Enos
• Kanzi (born 1980) — bonobo; involved with language research and tool invention; ApeNet language-using great ape ambassador
• Koko (born 1971) — gorilla; involved with sign language research and ApeNet language-using great ape ambassador
• Lucy — chimpanzee; cross-fostered and raised by University of Oklahoma psychotherapist
• Nim Chimpsky (1973–2000) — chimpanzee; named after linguist Noam Chomsky
• Nyota (born 1998) — bonobo; Panbanisha's son
• Oliver the chimp — chimpanzee; the so-called "Missing Link", apparent "humanzee"
• Panzee and Panbanisha — chimpanzee & bonobo; at the same research center as Kanzi
• Sarah (chimpanzee) — research primate whose cognitive skills are documented in The Mind of an Ape
• Sultan — chimpanzee; used in classic Kohler tool-use studies
• Titus (born 1974) — gorilla; an extensively observed silverback Mountain Gorilla
• Washoe (1965-2007) — chimpanzee; pioneer ape of hand-signing research

Zoo apes

• Ah Meng (circa 18 June 1960 — 8 February 2008) — female Sumatran Orangutan and a tourism icon of Singapore
• Bill (1946-2007) - long-lived Chimpanzee who resided at Sequoia Park Zoo in Eureka, California for over fifty years
• Binti Jua — gorilla who saved a human boy in 1996
• Bokito (born 1996) — silverback gorilla that escaped the Blijdorp Zoo on May 18, 2007 and injured a woman
• Charlie the Chimp — chimpanzee in a South African Zoo who smokes and can walk upright
• Colo (born 1956) — first gorilla born in captivity
• Copito de Nieve aka "Snowflake" (1964–2003) — only albino gorilla known to have existed; most famous resident of the Barcelona Zoo
• Fifi — Matriarch of the chimpanzees at Sydney's Taronga Zoo, died on July 19, 2007 at age 60
• Guy the Gorilla (1946–1978) - was a famous gorilla in London Zoo
• Idi Amin (Age 36) - The lone gorilla from Brazil, lives alone on the Belo Horizonte, Brazil Zoo
• Jambo (1961–1992) — gorilla who cared for a boy who fell into his enclosure
• Massa (1930–1984) — silverback, longest lived gorilla ever recorded, died at age 54
• Max (1971–2004) — gorilla in the Johannesburg Zoo who famously apprehended a criminal in 1997, getting shot twice in the process
• Sebastian — former resident of the animal orphanage near Nairobi National Park, Kenya. Famous for smoking and not requiring a cage
• Willie B. (1959–2000) — silverback gorilla kept in isolation for 27 years, became head of a troop and father of five
• Yeroen — chimpanzee at the Arnhem Zoo, star of de Waal's "Chimpanzee Politics"

Circus apes

• Gargantua (1929–1949) — acid-scarred gorilla captured in the wild who performed in the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus
• Toto (1931–1968) — Gargantua's would-be mate
• Trudy (chimpanzee) — Also known as 'Little Alice', this chimpanzee was put through torture before she was retired at Monkey World, Dorset

Ape politicians

• Macaco Tião — a chimpanzee who had the habit of throwing excrement at visitors (including several politicians) to the Rio de Janeiro Zoo. A satirical newspaper ran his candidature for Rio de Janeiro Mayor in 1988, and he got 9.5% of the votes, just behind Marcello Alencar and César Maia.

Pet apes

• Bubbles the chimpanzee — pet of entertainer Michael Jackson
• Scatter the chimpanzee — pet of entertainer Elvis Presley
• Travis - Pet which brutally attacked a Connecticut woman and was killed by police

See also

• List of fictional apes (and some other primates)
• List of monkeys
• Monkeys in space

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