Photo of the Day #551: Apes

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The skeletons of a few apes (from the right: Pan troglodytes, Gorilla gorilla, and Homo sapiens), photographed at the National Museum of Natural History.


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As soon as you have anything to do with the gorilla the fascination of studying him begins to grow on you and you instinctively begin to speak of the gorilla as "he" in a human sense, for he is obviously as well as scientifically akin to man. - Carl Akeley

That is a very nice exhibit! I remember in 2004 while an intern there, I was working with a bunch of fragmentary vertebrate fossils from the Morrison Fm and sometimes will have no idea what or who had been the owner of a certain bone fragment until taking a stroll through that exhibit!!