[Geography] Apes in Forgotten Realms

[Nifft]

Where can I find medium sized apes living in the wild in the forgotten realms? What apes would be medium sized? Would gorillas count as medium sized apes?

"Humans are bloody everywhere these days." -- an elf, probably

I'm making a revised ranger with an ape animal companion and I'm working on backstory and cultural aspects of my character etc.

Since the setting's apes include arctic yeti, it seems pretty reasonable to have apes everywhere from the sub-arctic to the tropics.

Unlike the real world, they presumably can feed off of magical plants & hunt magical non-hibernating prey animals in the winter of temperate and colder regions.