| The museum is fortunate to have skeletons of one living species of lesser ape, the gibbon Hylobates sp. and most of the species of great ape; human Homo sapiens, chimpanzee Pan troglodytes, gorilla Gorilla gorilla, and orangutan Pongo abelii
The skeletons were originally housed in The Aberdeen University Anatomy Museum. It likely that they were obtained by Sir John Struthers who was Regius Professor in Anatomy at Aberdeen from 1863-1889. The place where the animals were collected is unknown and it is unknown whether they were wild or zoo animals.
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