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The TV naturalist remembers his first trip to see gorillas in Rwanda’s Virunga Mountains in 1978—and checks in on the descendants of an ape he met then—in this involving documentary.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
The area is home to the world's rarest great ape, the tapanuli orangutan, just 800 of which were believed to exist in the wild before the disaster.
From Barron's • Feb. 19, 2026
But there are no ape characters in the Lion King.
From Slate • Feb. 6, 2026
Success would allow England to ape the forward-heavy power-play bench that South Africa deployed en route to the Rugby World Cup victory in France.
From BBC • Nov. 8, 2025
Mack says he doesn’t have the money to pay for an ape babysitter.
From "The One and Only Ivan" by Katherine Applegate
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