Heartwarming photos of apes reveal amazing similarities with humans

A baby chimpanzee stretches as if in a yoga-pose in this heart-melting image of the young primate.

From a rare and adorable bald bonobo nursing on his mum to a furry baby just happy to play in a pile of straw, these pint-sized apes will one day be powerful creatures, reports the Daily Mail.

Other pictures include an orang-utan baby just happy to be alive and cute bonobos clinging to their mothers.

Newborn-obsessed photographer and animal handler Sonja Probst, 46, from Bavaria took a 3,600 mile whirlwind tour of zoos in Germany and Tenerife to capture her extraordinary images.

"I love to show the similarity between the primates and us humans,' she said. 'The adult apes raise their children, protect and teach them just like we do.

"But we can also see how their offspring can be mischievous just like our little ones."
 

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