Difference walking gorillas and chimpanzees?

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In the Science post by Tim White about the Ardipithecus is stated that chimpanzees and gorillas are different walking / knockling.

Anyone knows the difference?
And is the bonobo different from the chimpanzee and the gorilla?

Does anyone knows about the length of the fingers of bonobos / chimpanzees? Is that lenghth really smaller than that of the Ardipithecus?
 
well from what I've seen I personally know that Gorillas walk in the sense by moving their arms to propell their legs forward.
Chimps I think they walk by moving all four limbs in a seperate sense.
 
Many thanks Dragon(ele)nerd.
I found an article explaining some more on Primatology Today Net.
By Danial Schmitt from Duke University, named: Independent evolution of knuckle-walking in African apes shows that humans did not evolve from a knuckle-walking ancestor“, was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on August 10th, 2009.

Thanks.
 
interesting, I think the case would of been we originally came from a similiar species in the start. But humans grew on a very seperate path than to the other apes. It probably at first was spilt descretly at first. And maybe the chimps' and the gorillas' ancestors weren't knuckle walkers either?
 
In time it all far away and so are the ideas os the scientists. We all are thinking that first the geat were knockling walking, and after that some developed bipedalism. Becoming the human branch. Some of the scientist are wondering about the why. How should that benefit. What advantage would that give in the area of energy. They found out that gorillas do differ in knockling from the pan branch. And so some scientist are putting the idea of a possibility that the old apes were bipedalistic, and some became knockling. The scientist from the ardipithecus are stating that the common ancestor (from which the pan and the homo branch derived) of ardipithecus, of Lucy and so on was more homo-like instead of pan-like.

As far as I do understand.
 
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