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Family Pongidae (Great Apes)

Gorilla (Gorilla gorilla)
Gorilla (Gorilla gorilla)
Source: Microsoft® Encarta® 96 Encyclopedia

Please do not plagiarize. If you would like to use this information in a print or electronic publication, please ask me for permission first and cite this page as:
Knapp, Robbin D. 1999. "Family Pongidae (Great Apes)". In Robb's Online Multimedia Database of Animals and Plants. Dec. 19, 19997.

Genera of the Family Pongidae (Great Apes)

Some authors include the gibbons as subfamily Hylobatinae here, in which case the following three genera constitute the subfamily Ponginae.
  1. Gorilla (Gorilla)
  2. Pan (syn. Chimpansee, chimpanzees, chimps)
  3. Pongo (Orangutan, Orang-utan, Orang)
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