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Apes VideosTake a closer look at our closest relatives (chimps, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans) and get a sense of all our many similarites and critical differences.Welcome to the National Geographic video player.Video Sections

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Mammals >> Apes - Take a closer look at our closest relatives (chimps, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans) and get a sense of all our many similarites and critical differences.
- "Genius" Chimp Outsmarts Tube - Researchers at the Max Planck Institute in Germany capture a chimpanzee's ingenious efforts to get unreachable peanuts out of a tube. Want more? Watch Ape Genius, a Nova/National Geographic special, on February 19, 2008, on PBS.
- Animal-to-Human Disease Watch - December 12, 2008—In remote corners, a research team is monitoring contact between humans and wild animals—particularly wild animal meat—in hopes of stopping pandemics before they start.
- Apes With Tools - New photographs from researchers in Nouabale-Ndoki National park in Congo reveal that gorillas use tools, the first documented among wild gorillas.
- Baby Chimp - Some primates are vegetarian, but not these chimpanzees in Tanzania. You wouldn't want to be a nearby Colobus monkey.
- Bonobo: The Female Alpha - In bonobo society, it's the females that rule the world.
- Chimps & Tools - They haven't produced a computer yet, but chimapanzees are pretty good toolmakers. The big secret? Females chimps are better with tools than males!
- Chimps Batter Hives for Honey - March 2, 2009—Pounding fortified beehives with big sticks and other tools, a chimpanzee group in Africa works hard for the honey (apologies to Donna Summer)—the most sophisticated honey-gathering methods seen in wild chimps.
- Chimps Hunting in Trees - Many primates are vegetarian, but not these chimpanzees in Tanzania, as a group of colobus monkeys finds out.
- Chimps Use Tools to Hunt Mammals - February 22, 2007—See newly observed footage of tool-making behavior that further blurs the line between humans and chimpanzees, our closest living relatives.
- Displaying Chimps - Meet your long-lost cousin!
- Former Pet Primates Find Haven - February 19, 2009—After the recent chimp attack in Connecticut, a Florida sanctuary's work is more pertinent than ever. The facility treats pet primates that have been abused or abandoned.
- Gorilla Charge - A group of scientists gets charged by a family of wild gorillas.
- Gorilla Poaching - Wild African gorillas are hunted down and slaughtered for their meat with devastating results. Caution! Some images in this clip are of a disturbing nature.
- Gorilla Rescue - In the mountains between Rwanda and Uganda, researchers try to save a young female gorilla rescued from poachers.
- Gorilla Tourism - There is an extraordinary effort to prevent gorilla poaching by making gorillas more valuable alive than dead.
- Gorilla vs. Gorilla - Two huge male gorillas square off in the wild in a test of dominance. Which will emerge victorious?
- Gorillas Executed in Congo Park - August 1, 2007—Four rare gorillas were shot in Africa's Virunga park on July 22. Get up close with other Virunga gorillas as rangers patrol the park to prevent another tragedy.
- Hanging With Gorillas - A group of tourists lives out a fantasy trip: getting up close and personal with a family of wild gorillas on their own turf.
- Kalimantan's Orangutans - A newly discovered population of orangutans on the island of Kalimantan brings hope for the species' survival.
- Orphaned Gorillas Sent to Island - August 17, 2009—Six gorilla orphans of a critically endangered species have been released on an isolated African island. Conservationists hope to move the gorillas into the wider wilderness within three years.
- Tourists Killing Chimps? - The chimps of Mahale Mountains National Park in Tanzania are in danger, but this time it could be human kindness that is killing them.
Amphibians - Take a look into the dual world of amphibians, crossing the lines between land and water, with tadpoles, frogs, toads, and more.
Birds - Masters of the air and heir to the dinosaurs, birds of all shapes and sizes find a home in environments all over earth.
Bugs - The adventures of the world of the very small get writ large in close-up footage of the lives of bugs.
Fish - Dive beneath the surface of rivers, lakes, and oceans, and see the world of fish as never before.
Invertebrates - Catch a glimpse of the bizarre forms life takes among our distant spineless relatives.
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