What are primates? Apes are mammals without tails and are known of being intelligent, these apes are into two categories, lesser Apes and Great Apes. The lesser Apes include gibbons and siamangs. Great Apes include Gorillas, Chimpanzees, Orangutan etc. These great Apes can be seen in their natural homes in parts of Africa, for the example mountain gorillas can be see in Uganda's Bwindi impenetrable national park, and Kibale forest national park , note that this can only be seen through booking one of Uganda safari tours, they can also be seen in Rwanda's volcanoes national park and Congo's Virunga national park. The great apes such as mountain gorillas and chimpanzees share 95 percent DNA with humans. These Apes normaly live in groups as families with silverbacks as head of each family. its important to note that a silvernack mountain gorilla is stronger than 20 men. The difference between mountain gorillas and lowland gorillas is that mountain.