The phrase "ape at the" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
Without additional context, it is difficult to determine when it could be used appropriately.
Example: "The children began to ape at the antics of the clowns during the show."
Alternatives: "mimic at the" or "imitate at the".
On Saturday, Richard Jones directs a revival of Eugene O'Neill's The Hairy Ape at the Old Vic.
Before then, he would finish a four-week run in Eugene O'Neill's "The Hairy Ape," at the Park Avenue Armory, playing Yank, a stoker on a transatlantic liner.
That's to say it starts and ends with an ape at the dawn of time, while its protagonist – as murderous as A Clockwork Orange's Alex DeLarge – has all the emotional sophistication of HAL 9000.
She is the author of "Kanzi: The Ape at the Brink of the Human Mind," and, with Stuart G. Shanker and Talbot J. Taylor, is a co-author of "Ape Language and the Human Mind," to be published next month by Oxford University Press.
Step forward Jay Z, who namechecks all the blue-chip favourites in this paean to "going ape at the auction", from Pablo himself to Warhol and Rothko, not to mention "Jeff Koons balloons" and a "yellow Basquiat in my kitchen corner".
Following the discovery of this advanced grade of ape at the 14-million-year-old site of Fort Ternan, Kenya (Leakey 1962), Louis Leakey's Kenyapithecus became a catchall for large-bodied Middle Miocene apes found throughout that country.
So when I heard that a bunch of unsettled young Iranian-Americans were getting together to protest Ahmadinejad showing his ape face at the UN General Assembly last week, I quickly wiped out half of my savings for a ticket to New York.
Stephen Ross, the director of the Lester E. Fisher Center for the Study and Conservation of Apes at the Lincoln Park Zoo, runs Project ChimpCARE, which keeps track of the number of chimps in the United States.
Dr. Steve Ross, assistant director of the Lester E. Fisher Center for the Study and Conservation of Apes at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago, said he found it "very improbable" that a chimpanzee who appeared in films in the 1930s would still be alive in 2011.
We were drenched by astounding deluges for the first couple of days, but the kids dug pits in the beach, we moved one tent inside another, and took in a special rainy-day matinee of "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" at the small local theater.
Stephen Ross, the director of the Lester E. Fisher Center for the Study and Conservation of Apes at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago, Illinois, wonders if there's a compromise.
