ape 599.88 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85005941 http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_314295 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ape https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Apes https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hominoidea https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q102470 A branch of Old World tailless simians native to Africa and Southeast Asia. They are the sister group of the Old World monkeys, together forming the catarrhine clade. They are distinguished from other primates by a wider degree of freedom of motion at the shoulder joint as evolved by the influence of brachiation. In traditional and non-scientific use, the term "ape" excludes humans, and is thus not equivalent to the scientific taxon Hominoidea. There are two extant branches of the superfamily Hominoidea: the gibbons, or lesser apes; and the hominids, or great apes. Hominoidea apes catarrhine