But they excelled at covering ground, and in a remarkable diaspora surpassing even the dinosaurs' record of territorial conquest, they dispersed across the planet, ravishing every ecosystem they encountered, along the way, inventing culture and metalworking and painting and dance and music and science and rocket ships that would eventually take 12 particularly excellent apes to the surface of the Moon.
Mas foram excelentes na cobertura do terreno e numa diáspora espantosa ultrapassaram o registo dos dinossauros na conquista territorial, dispersaram-se pelo planeta, apoderando-se de todos os ecossistemas que encontravam, e, entretanto, inventaram a cultura, a metalurgia e a pintura, a dança, a música, a ciência e os foguetões que acabaram por colocar 12 desses macacos excelentes na superfície da Lua.