List of Individual Apes - Scientific Apes

Scientific Apes

• Abang (born 1966) - orangutan, taught to use and make a stone tool (cutting flake)
• Ai (born 1976) — chimpanzee, studied by scientists at Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University
• Bonnie — orangutan, began whistling (mimicking an animal caretaker), which is changing ideas about primate sound repertoires
• Chantek (born 1977) — orangutan, involved with language research and ApeNet language-using great ape ambassador
• Clint — chimpanzee, source of DNA for Chimpanzee Genome Project, Yerkes Primate Center
• Donald — chimp, source of DNA for chimpanzee genome project
• Enos (died 1962) — chimpanzee, spacefaring, after Ham
• Frodo — chimpanzee, baby-eating "bully", attacked Jane Goodall and Gary Larson
• Gon — chimpanzee, source of DNA for chimpanzee genome project
• Gua — chimpanzee; raised as a child by the Drs. Kellogg alongside their son Donald
• Ham the Chimp (1956–1983) — chimpanzee; spacefaring, before Enos
• Kanzi (born 1980) — bonobo, involved with language research and tool invention, ApeNet language-using great ape ambassador
• Koko (born 1971) — gorilla, involved with sign language research and ApeNet language-using great ape ambassador
• Lana — chimpanzee, reared at Yerkes National Primate Research Center as part of its language analogue project
• Lucy — chimpanzee, cross-fostered and raised by University of Oklahoma psychotherapist
• Nim Chimpsky (1973–2000) — chimpanzee, named after linguist Noam Chomsky
• Nyota (born 1998) — bonobo, Panbanisha's son
• Oliver the chimp — chimpanzee, the so-called "Missing Link", apparent "humanzee"
• Panzee and Panbanisha — chimpanzee and bonobo at the same research center as Kanzi
• Sarah (chimpanzee) — research primate whose cognitive skills are documented in The Mind of an Ape
• Sultan — chimpanzee, used in classic Kohler tool-use studies
• Titus (1974-2009) — gorilla, an extensively observed silverback mountain gorilla
• Washoe (1965–2007) — chimpanzee, pioneer ape of hand-signing research