Their bodies are a similar shape, and, like us, they have long arms and fingers and toes for gripping. Some apes are very clever and use tools such as sticks and stones to help get food. Monkeys such as baboons and marmosets are similar to apes but usually have a tail to help them balance as they swing through the trees. Some, like woolly monkeys, have a prehensile tail which they can use for gripping. But they are largely gentle and eat only leaves and shoots.
Mountain gorillas are very rare and live only in scattered areas throughout central Africa.
Chimpanzees remind us of ourselves with their sense of fun and expressive faces. They live in African forest and grassland. Although they sleep in crude nests in the trees, they spend most of their lives on the ground, walking on all fours. Baboons live on the ground and run on all fours like a dog. A single pair of rabbits could produce a family of 33 million offspring in 3 years if all the young survived to breed.