Insights Through Collaborations with Apes

Great Apes
- Great apes are classified in the Family Hominidae and include bonobos, orangutans, chimpanzees, gorillas and humans.
- Primates
- Bonobos
- Orangutans
- Chimpanzees
- Gorillas
- Statistics
Science
- The science of Great Ape Trust seeks to understand the origins and future of culture, language, tools and intelligence.
- Scientists' Biographies
- History of Ape Language
- Scientific Articles
- Trust Science News
- Trust Internship Program
Library
- Great Ape Trust's library introduces you to a world of scientific study, latest research news and multi-media center of images.
- Featured Books
- Trust In The News
- NewsWatch
- Glossary
- Resource Links
- Photo Gallery
- Video Gallery
Forest of Hope
- Gishwati Area Conservation Program is a forest restoration and chimpanzee conservation effort Great Ape Trust manages in Rwanda.
- About Forest of Hope
- About Rwanda
- Forest of Hope Blog
- Donate to Forest of Hope
About The Trust
- Great Ape Trust is dedicated to the study of ape language and cognition and the preservation of apes in their natural habitat.
- History
- Meet Our Apes
- Great Ape Trust Blog
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Founder
- Contact Us
- Ape Alert Signup
Media Center
- A clearinghouse for news releases, contact info, logos and images regarding our scientific and conservation efforts.
- News Releases
- Resources
- Contact Info

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Great Ape Trust appreciates the media’s interest in our mission of scientific research into ape language, culture, tools and intelligence as well as our initiative to restore a Rwandan forest and conserve a small population of chimpanzees. Please begin your media inquiries with the Communications Department and the contact information listed below.

- Great Ape Trust
- 4200 S.E. 44th Avenue
  Des Moines, Iowa 50320
- 515.243.3580
- 515.243.8997 (Fax)
- Email me

- Al Setka
- Director of Communications
- 1515 Linden Street, Suite 220
  Des Moines, Iowa 50320
- 515.243.9367 (office)
- 515.720.7763 (mobile)
- 515.243.9367 (fax)
- Email me

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Great Ape Trust is a scientific research facility in Des Moines, Iowa, dedicated to understanding the origins and future of culture, language, tools and intelligence, and to the preservation of endangered great apes in their natural habitats. Announced in 2002 and receiving its first ape residents in 2004, Great Ape Trust is home to a colony of six bonobos involved in noninvasive interdisciplinary studies of their cognitive and communicative capabilities, and to six orangutans.

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