Answer: APES
APES is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 372 times.
    - Mimics
 
    - Barbary beasts
 
    - Jungle creatures
 
    - Copies
 
    - Primatologists' subjects
 
    - Parrots
 
    - "2001" characters
 
    - Fossey's fascination
 
    - Some are "great"
 
    - King Kong and others
 
    - Greystoke's foster parents
 
    - Parodies
 
    - Lunks
 
    - Monkeys' uncles
 
    - People preceders
 
    - "Planet of the ___"
 
    - Subjects of Darwinian theory
 
    - King Kong's kin
 
    - Simians
 
    - Gibbons and others
 
    - Henchmen
 
    - Goons
 
    - Jungle swingers
 
    - Earth rulers in a 1968 film
 
    - Steps in human evolution
 
    - Monkeys' uncles?
 
    - Bronx Zoo houseful
 
    - Gorillas and chimps
 
    - Extras in the opening of "2001: A Space Odyssey"
 
    - "Great" beasts
 
    - Real swingers?
 
    - Makes fun of, in a way
 
    - Big galoots
 
    - Forest swingers
 
    - Captors in a sci-fi classic
 
    - Tarzan's raisers
 
    - Zoo animals
 
    - Zoo houseful
 
    - Level on the evolutionary ladder
 
    - Gibbons and gorillas
 
    - Animals of the species Pan troglodyte
 
    - Primatologist's study
 
    - Makes like
 
    - Gorillas and such
 
    - Pithecologists' study
 
    - Hairy Halloween costumes
 
    - Pals of Tarzan
 
    - Knuckle draggers
 
    - Monkey's uncles?
 
    - Lummoxes
 
    - Copiers
 
    - Mimics mockingly
 
    - Acts like
 
    - Steps in the evolution of man
 
    - "Tarzan of the ___"
 
    - Big lugs
 
    - Some early "astronauts"
 
    - Hairy copiers
 
    - Humans' cousins, to evolutionists
 
    - Heston's jailors, in a sci-fi film
 
    - Gibbons et al.
 
    - Dian Fossey studied them
 
    - Large copiers
 
    - First-scene characters in "2001: A Space Odyssey"
 
    - Orangutans, for instance
 
    - Some of our fellow primates
 
    - Imitates
 
    - Chimps and such
 
    - Mighty Joe Young and others
 
    - Chimps and kin
 
    - Big brutes
 
    - Earth's dominant society, in a Wahlberg film
 
    - Gibbons
 
    - Louis Leakey studied them
 
    - Does a takeoff
 
    - Fossey's focus
 
    - King Kong and kin
 
    - Study subjects of some primatologists
 
    - Those always monkeying around?
 
    - Chimpanzees and gorillas
 
    - Galoots
 
    - Creatures studied by Goodall and Fossey
 
    - Impersonates
 
    - Tarzan's pals
 
    - Zoo attractions
 
    - Subject of Jane Goodall's study
 
    - Subjects for Fossey and Goodall
 
    - Orangutans and gibbons
 
    - Primatologist's subjects
 
    - Copycats
 
    - Gibbons, e.g.
 
    - Big louts
 
    - Hired thugs
 
    - Gibbons, for example
 
    - Bonobos, e.g.
 
    - Cornelius and Dr. Zaius, e.g.
 
    - They might go bananas for bananas
 
    - Goes bonkers, with "out"
 
    - Anthropoids
 
    - Fossey focus
 
    - Mocks, maybe
 
    - Gibbons and chimps
 
    - Orangutans and gorillas
 
    - Cornelius and Zira, in a 1968 sci-fi film
 
    - Long-armed critters
 
    - Gorilla and gibbon
 
    - Dian Fossey subjects
 
    - "Planet of the __"
 
    - Chimps and orangutans
 
    - King Kong's cousins
 
    - Zoo swingers
 
    - Chimps and gorillas
 
    - Monkey relatives
 
    - Primates without tails
 
    - Greystoke's foster family
 
    - Some primates
 
    - Gorillas, for example
 
    - Flatters, in a way
 
    - Primatology study
 
    - Chimps, for instance
 
    - Chimps, for example
 
    - Long-armed animals
 
    - Some simians
 
    - Barbary swingers
 
    - Popular zoo attractions
 
    - Yerkish speakers
 
    - Mocks by imitating
 
    - Natural mimics
 
    - Tarzan's friends
 
    - They go bananas over bananas
 
    - Kong and Young
 
    - Nairobi Trio players
 
    - Planet dwellers in a 1968 film
 
    - Does likewise
 
    - They communicate using Yerkish
 
    - Emulates
 
    - Some are great and some are lesser
 
    - Fossey's study
 
    - Some communicate using Yerkish
 
    - They go bananas for bananas
 
    - Learns primate-style
 
    - Cornelius and Zira, e.g.
 
    - Big palookas
 
    - Bronx Zoo denizens
 
    - "Tarzan" movie extras
 
    - Monkey's uncles
 
    - Follows suit
 
    - Yerkish users
 
    - Hairy hulks
 
    - Gorillas
 
    - Chimpanzees and bonobos
 
    - Family business owners, perhaps
 
    - Kong's kin
 
    - Tarzan's "family"
 
    - Hairy animals
 
    - Zoo dwellers
 
    - Earth's dominant mammals, in a Heston film
 
    - Friends of Tarzan
 
    - "Great" swingers
 
    - Palookas
 
    - Big lummoxes
 
    - Orangutans, e.g.
 
    - Zoo's houseful
 
    - Fossey%C2%92s focus
 
    - Fosseys focus
 
    - Takes off on
 
    - Jungle film regulars
 
    - Astronaut Taylor's captors
 
    - Imprisoners of Charlton Heston in 1968
 
    - They might monkey around
 
    - Animals studied by Yerkes
 
    - Orangoutangs
 
    - 60 Across and family
 
    - They swing a great deal
 
    - Plays Simon says with
 
    - Tarzan movie extras
 
    - Chimps and others
 
    - "Planet of the ____"
 
    - Rock of Gibraltar mammals
 
    - Zoo beasts
 
    - Gibraltar Barbary beasts
 
    - "Rise of the Planet of the ___"
 
    - Gibbons and Orangutans
 
    - King kong, et al.
 
    - Tarzan's clique
 
    - 'Planet of the ___'
 
    - Jungle group
 
    - Gorillas and gibbons
 
    - Gorillas, e.g.
 
    - Tarzan's cronies
 
    - Tarzan's gang
 
    - Tarzan's posse
 
    - Tarzan's coterie
 
    - Tarzan's entourage
 
    - Scopes trial reference
 
    - Gorillas and  gibbons
 
    - Chimps, e.g.
 
    - Big goons
 
    - Kin of Kong
 
    - Kong's cousins
 
    - Nim Chimpsky and kin
 
    - Ridicules
 
    - Lugs
 
    - Safari-park dwellers
 
    - They might monkey around?
 
    - Animal antagonists in a 2011 film
 
    - Silverbacks
 
    - Does little work
 
    - Sci-fi planet inhabitants
 
    - Heston's captors, in a sci-fi film
 
    - Jane Goodall study
 
    - Barbary residents
 
    - Tarzan's neighbors
 
    - Extras in "2001"
 
    - Tailless primates
 
    - Hairy ones
 
    - Does an impression of
 
    - Some anthropoids
 
    - Orangutans, for example
 
    - With competence
 
    - Takes after
 
    - Silverbacks, e.g.
 
    - Zoo favorites
 
    - Mighty Joe Young and kin
 
    - "Tarzan" characters
 
    - Some of them have learned to sign
 
    - Mirrors
 
    - Hulking brutes
 
    - Some swingers
 
    - Dian Fossey study
 
    - Zoo primates
 
    - King Kong and Magilla Gorilla
 
    - Chimps and orangs
 
    - Large primates
 
    - Tarzan's foster family
 
    - Powerful primates
 
    - Most hominoids
 
    - Burlesques
 
    - Heston's hairy co-stars
 
    - Darwinian ancestors
 
    - Gorillas and chimpanzees
 
    - Inhabitants of a sci-fi planet
 
    - Big tree climbers
 
    - Chimps and gibbons
 
    - "2001" extras
 
    - Goodall's subjects, e.g.
 
    - "Great" hominids
 
    - "Planet of the ___" (1968)
 
    - Some early astronauts
 
    - "Tarzan" creatures
 
    - "Dawn of the Planet of the ___"
 
    - Chimps, orangutans and such
 
    - Humankind's cousins
 
    - Does impersonations of
 
    - Makes a recording
 
    - Big primates
 
    - Hairy primates
 
    - Humans' cousins
 
    - Inhabitants of a certain sci-fi planet
 
    - Is a copycat
 
    - Zira and Cornelius, in a 1968 film
 
    - Jungle animals
 
    - Tarzan's adopters
 
    - Long-armed beasts
 
    - Pithecological study
 
    - Gorillas, for instance
 
    - Fossey subjects
 
    - Kong and kin
 
    - Chimpanzees
 
    - Hairy jungle creatures
 
    - Does impressions of
 
    - Sci-fi talkers since the '60s
 
    - Orangs and such
 
    - Extras in a Tarzan movie
 
    - Long-armed banana lovers
 
    - Large copiers?
 
    - Dr. Zaius and kin
 
    - Jungle primates
 
    - Rwanda primates
 
    - Jane Goodall's subjects
 
    - Primates
 
    - Does
 
    - Dominant species, on a sci-fi planet
 
    - Dian Fossey or Jane Goodall study
 
    - National Zoo houseful
 
    - Some beasts at 20-Across
 
    - Gorillas or chimps
 
    - Creatures in Darwinian theory
 
    - Many knuckle-walking creatures
 
    - Orangutans, gorillas and such
 
    - Burroughs beasts
 
    - Pretends to be
 
    - Copyists
 
    - Homo sapiens relatives
 
    - Title characters of nine sci-fi films
 
    - Jungle beasts
 
    - Tarzan raisers
 
    - Some zoo house dwellers
 
    - "2001" creatures
 
    - Zoo house denizens
 
    - Gibbons and orangs
 
    - Many tailless primates
 
    - African primates
 
    - Uncouth sorts
 
    - Tarzan's troop
 
    - King Kong and his family
 
    - Section at a zoo
 
    - Residents of a 1968 movie "planet"
 
    - Orangs, for instance
 
    - "Great" or "lesser" beasts
 
    - Gibbon and orang
 
    - "Great" creatures
 
    - Orangutans and others
 
    - Humans' closest relatives
 
    - Outdoor section of a zoo
 
    - Zoo exhibit
 
    - Chimpanzees and such
 
    - Monkeys relatives
 
    - Close relatives of humans, DNA-wise
 
    - Caesar's army, in a popular film franchise
 
    - Bonobos and chimpanzees
 
    - King Kong and family
 
    - Tailless simians
 
    - Donkey Kong and others
 
    - Gorillas are "great" ones
 
    - Chimpanzees and orangutans
 
    - A group of them may be called a shrewdness
 
    - Our closest relatives at the zoo
 
    - Bonobos and gibbons, e.g.
 
    - Long-armed primates
 
    - Gibbons and gorillas, e.g.
 
    - Brutes
 
    - Certain simians
 
    - Some sign language users
 
    - Hairy jungle swingers
 
    - Animals found in 16-, 20-, 35-, 51- and 58-Across
 
    - Bonobo and orangutan
 
    - Jane Goodall subjects
 
    - Animals that Goodall and Fossey studied
 
    - Close relatives of humans
 
    - Chimps and bonobos
 
    - The avant-garde "artists" Congo and Pierre Brassau
 
    - Orangutans or bonobos
 
    - Goodall subjects
 
    - Gibbons, etc.
 
    - Mocks
 
    - Does the same as
 
    - Cranky Kong and Donkey Kong, for example
 
    - Animal anagram of 23-Down
 
    - They share our blood types
 
    - Gibbons or gorillas
 
    - Creatures described as catarrhine, from the Latin for "downward-nosed"
 
    - Gorillas and bonobos
 
    - Subjects of primatologists
 
    - Uncreatively draws from
 
    - Primatology focus
 
    - Some monkey house inhabitants
 
    - Donkey Kong Jr. and others
 
    - Bonobos and orangutans, e.g.
 
    - Relatives of monkeys
 
    - What primatologists study
 
    - Primates like Koko
 
    - Gibbons and bonobos
 
    - Impersonates, maybe
 
    - Humans' closest living relatives
 
    - Primatology subjects
 
    - Primates in "Tarzan"
 
    - Chimpanzees, e.g.
 
    - Creatures that take over Earth in a 1968 film
 
    - Mammals with prehensile feet
 
    - Bonobos and orangutans
 
    - Hominoids with strong arms