But the apes in the new film hardly resemble their predecessors.
I included a count of the dead apes in the morning sitrep briefing.
Humans, broadly construed, emerged as bipedal apes in the African mixed savanna-woodlands approximately two million years ago.
In "Tarzan's Hollywood Party" he is shown imitating, or harmonizing with, a pair of apes in the foreground.
In 1984 he shot "Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes" in the rain forests of West Africa.
A tiny increment in problem-solving ability and group coordination is why we left the other apes in the dust.
That's why I have introduced bipartisan legislation to phase out invasive research on great apes in the United States.
The opening section, "The Dawn of Man," shows apes in the prehuman era discovering a strange stone monolith that appears from nowhere and then using the first tools.
And this is what puts urgency into it: because there is no doubt that, in a hundred years, there won't be great apes in the wild.
The local chimpanzees, called the Kanyawara group, after the nearest village, would not run away from us, as apes in the wild ordinarily would.
The Great Apes Conservation Act, enacted in 2000, authorized the spending of $5 million annually over five years to help protect apes in the wild.
