Ape years ago (Mya) the clades diverged into newer clades. The lesser apes are the gibbon family, Hylobatidae, of sixteen species; all are native to Asia. Their major differentiating characteristic is their long arms, which they use to brachiate through trees. Their wrists are ball and socket joints as an evolutionary adaptation to their arboreal lifestyle. Generally smaller than the African apes, the largest gibbon, the siamang, weighs up to ; in comparison, the smallest "great ape", the bonobo, is . Formerly, all the great apes except humans were classified as the family Pongidae, which conveniently provided for separating the human
The Ape of Naples The Ape of Naples The Ape of Naples is the final studio album by English experimental act Coil. The album compiles material from 1993 to 2004 assembled and reworked in 2005 by primary Coil musician Peter Christopherson. It was released following the death of lead vocalist John Balance, who died on 13 November 2004. The title of the album was originally intended to be "Fire of the Mind". "The Ape of Naples" is composed of reworked material that Coil had created in varying forms since the inception of "Backwards", their aborted Nothing Records album (created during a period that Christopherson