Bilaterally symmetrical animals
SUPERFAMILY: Apes
Hominoidea are otherwise known as hominoids or apes. Strictly speaking, hominoids are agile tree climbers and are mainly omnivorous.
Some animals which are called apes are not actually apes in the true sense of the word, in respect of the parvorder of catarrhini.
Apes have much more contracted spines than other catarrhines and in most cases this has resulted in the tail being lost.
Apes would have come into existence around 20 million years ago.
Gibbons and great apes makes up the hominoidea superfamily.
Gibbons are well known for having developed long arms and versatile wrists, which make them experts at swinging from tree to tree.
Other hominoids are the great apes which are tall hominoids which have dexterous hands.
Humans are great apes.
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Gibbons. |
Great apes. |
