Potential resilience treatments for orangutans (Pongo spp.): Lessons from a scoping review of interventions in humans and other animals by Lelia Bridgeland-Stephens, Susannah KS Thorpe, Jackie Chappell

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Large pelvic tubercle in orangutans relates to the adductor longus muscle by Brian M. Shearer, Magdalena Muchlinski, Ashley S. Hammond

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Recent decline in suitable large mammal habitats within the Dzanga Sangha Protected Areas, Central African Republic by Yisa Ginath Yuh, Kouamé Paul N’Goran, Ghislain Brice Beukou, Janika Wendefeuer, Terence Fuh Neba, Aristide Mesac Ndotar, Denis Lambert NdombaA, Albert Christian Junior Ndadet, Ilka Herbinger, H. Damon Matthews, Sarah E. Turner

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Functional flexibility in wild bonobo vocal behaviour by Zanna Clay, Jahmaira Archbold, Klaus Zuberbühler

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Visa A. J. Kurki and Tomasz Pietrzykowski (Eds.). Legal Personhood: Animals, Artificial Intelligence and the Unborn - The Law and Philosophy Library, Volume 119, ix (Springer... by Oliver Wookey

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Global clues to the nature of genomic mutations in humans by Aylwyn Scally

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Rapid evolution of the human mutation spectrum by Kelley Harris, Jonathan K Pritchard

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Plasmodium pitheci malaria in Bornean orang-utans at a rehabilitation centre in West Kalimantan, Indonesia by Karmele Llano Sanchez, Alex D. Greenwood, Aileen Nielsen, R. Taufiq P. Nugraha, Wendi Prameswari, Andini Nurillah, Fitria Agustina, Gail Campbell-Smith, Anik Budhi Dharmayanthi, Rahadian Pratama, Indra Exploitasia, J. Kevin Baird

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Le régime alimentaire des Gorilles de plaine de l’Est, Gorilla beringei graueri et la pharmacopée humaine : Alimentation ou automédication ? by Dalley-Divin Kambale Saa-Sita, Shelly Masi, Aimée Lorela Katungu Sawa-Sawa, Jean-Claude Kyungu Kasolene, Jean Malekani Mukulire

“…Humans share with great apes many diseases but also, locally, the use of food or medicinal plants. …”
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Current evidence indicates a Eurasian origin for the Last Common Ancestor of African apes and humans, and supports a new hypothesis suggesting that the Zanclean Megaflood (5.3 Ma)... by Frances A. M. Mansfield, Mario Vaneechoutte

“… While the established paradigm of human evolution asserts that the lineages leading to the extant great apes and Homo arose in Africa, the large number of fossil discoveries from Europe in recent decades support arguments for a European origin of the Hominidae (all great apes) and plausibly, also a European common ancestor of the Homininae (African great apes, Australopithecus species, and the genus Homo). …”
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Understanding others' preferences: A comparison across primate species and human societies. by Juliane Kaminski, Roman Stengelin, Antje Girndt, Daniel Haun, Katja Liebal

“…We investigated children's and non-human great apes' ability to anticipate others' choices from their evident food preferences-regardless of whether these preferences deviate or align with one's own. …”
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Are Apes’ Responses to Pointing Gestures Intentional? by Olivia Sultanescu, Kristin Andrews

“…This paper examines the meaningfulness of pointing in great apes. We appeal to Hannah Ginsborg’s conception of primitive normativity, which provides an adequate criterion for establishing whether a response is meaningful, and we attempt to make room for a conception according to which there is no fundamental difference between the responses of human infants and those of other great apes to pointing gestures. …”
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Evolution of the human tongue and emergence of speech biomechanics by Axel G. Ekström, Jens Edlund

“…Here, the evolution and species-unique properties of the human tongue is traced, via reference to the apparent articulatory behavior of extant non-human great apes, and fossil findings from early hominids – from a point of view of articulatory phonetics, the science of human speech production. …”
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The function and evolution of child-directed communication. by Johanna Schick, Caroline Fryns, Franziska Wegdell, Marion Laporte, Klaus Zuberbühler, Carel P van Schaik, Simon W Townsend, Sabine Stoll

“…CDC-like inputs are also reported for some vocally learning animals, suggesting similar functions in facilitating communicative competence. However, adult great apes, our closest living relatives, rarely signal to their infants, implicating communication surrounding the infant as the main input for infant great apes and early humans. …”
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Apes in the Anthropocene: flexibility and survival by Hockings, K, McLennan, M, Carvalho, S, Ancrenaz, M, Bobe, R, Byrne, R, Dunbar, R, Matsuzawa, T, McGrew, W, Williamson, E, Wilson, M, Wood, B, Wrangham, R, Hill, C

“… <p style="text-align:justify;">We are in a new epoch, the Anthropocene, and research into our closest living relatives, the great apes, must keep pace with the rate that our species is driving change. …”

A map of white matter tracts in a lesser ape, the lar gibbon by Bryant, K, Benn, RA, Manger, P, Bertelsen, M, Khrapitchev, A, Sallet, J, Mars, R

“…We find that white matter architecture of the gibbon temporal lobe suggests specializations that are reminiscent of those previously reported for great apes, specifically, the expansion of the arcuate fasciculus and the inferior longitudinal fasciculus in the temporal lobe. …”

A spoon full of studies helps the comparison go down: A comparative analysis of Tulving’s spoon test by Damian eScarf, Christopher eSmith, Michael eStuart

“…The review demonstrates that if we compare the performance of great apes to that of preschool children, and hold them to the same criteria, the data suggest mental travel is present but not ubiquitous in great apes.…”
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Life history impacts on infancy and the evolution of human social cognition by Kristen Hawkes

“…Greater longevity, slower maturation and shorter birth intervals are life history features that distinguish humans from the other living members of our hominid family, the great apes. Theory and evidence synthesized here suggest the evolution of those features can explain both our bigger brains and our cooperative sociality. …”
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Captive gibbons (Hylobatidae) use different referential cues in an object-choice task: insights into lesser ape cognition and manual laterality by Kai R. Caspar, Larissa Mader, Fabian Pallasdies, Miriam Lindenmeier, Sabine Begall

“…However, only few primate species, mostly great apes, have been studied thoroughly in that regard, rendering the understanding of phylogenetic influences on the underlying cognitive patterns difficult. …”
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Comparative and demographic analysis of orang-utan genomes. by Locke, D, Hillier, L, Warren, W, Worley, K, Nazareth, L, Muzny, D, Yang, S, Wang, Z, Chinwalla, A, Minx, P, Mitreva, M, Cook, L, Delehaunty, K, Fronick, C, Schmidt, H, Fulton, L, Fulton, R, Nelson, J, Magrini, V, Pohl, C, Graves, T, Markovic, C, Cree, A, Dinh, H, Hume, J

“…'Orang-utan' is derived from a Malay term meaning 'man of the forest' and aptly describes the southeast Asian great apes native to Sumatra and Borneo. The orang-utan species, Pongo abelii (Sumatran) and Pongo pygmaeus (Bornean), are the most phylogenetically distant great apes from humans, thereby providing an informative perspective on hominid evolution. …”