"ape" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it as a verb ("The experimenter tasked the apes with finding a way out of the maze.") or a noun ("Apes are intelligent primates that are closely related to humans.").
After Cooper's interview, Burnham made it clear that he too supported the idea of a 50p top rate of income tax to help with reduction of the deficit and warned against any move by the party to ape the Conservatives.
What Marvel has achieved with its comic-book universe, which Sony would do well to ape, is a kind of synthesis between creative endeavour and smart studio deal-making which would once have been thought impossible.
Last year, a 13-year-old Collingwood fan called the player "an ape".
The week before, Goodes had been racially abused on the pitch by a girl who called him an ape.
All the action is happening over there, so we've sprinted to the gorilla house, and I'm trying to get a glimpse through the reinforced glass of a hairy ape with his back to me.
You know with the ape thing, the whole thing, I'm just saying pumping him up and mucking around, all that sort of stuff".
Their numbers and range dwindled so much last century due to human development that there are fears they could be the first ape species to go extinct because of people.
Uncle Boonmee (which screened late in the competition) charts the final hours of an ailing farmer who is visited by the ghost of his dead wife and the spirit of his lost son, who romps out of the forest in the guise of an ape.
Gill claimed he shot the ape to "get a sense of what it might be like to kill someone", adding that it was "naughty fun" but "completely inedible".
After the mass emigration caused by the famine, magazines such as Punch in Britain and Harper's Weekly in America portrayed the Irish as ape-like.
Their leader (Gary Oldman) favours driving in, guns blazing, but an engineer (Jason Clarke) believes that he can foster some fellow feeling between the hirsute and not-so-hirsute settlements.Alas, peace proves to be horribly precarious, which is good news for anyone in the mood for explosions, shoot-outs and acrobatic ape-on-ape punch-ups.
