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Photos Of San Diego Zoo’s Newborn Gorilla
San Diego Zoo welcomed the birth of a new baby gorilla last month. I just found the photos on ZooBorn, a blog that you maybe interested in if you’re into newborn animals. The details of the birth are...
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Check Out VBS.TV’s “Gorillas In The Midst”
VBS.TV producers were so concerned with the mass gorilla slayings that happened a year ago in Virunga, that they went to Bwindi, in southern Uganda, and made a three part documentary on mountain...
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Great Apes LOL Like Human Too
A baby orangutan being tickled. Photo from Discovery News. We’re not the only species that are capable of laughing according to new study. Great apes are able to laugh like humans too, and they do it...
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Humans Evolved From Tree Climbers
A research from Duke University by Daniel Schmitt, associate professor of evolutionary anthropology, and Tracy Kivell, a post-doctoral research associate, shows that human evolved from tree climbing...
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Using Facebook and Twitter to Friend Uganda’s Mountain Gorillas
A mountain gorilla. Photo from Stefan Gara Soon Facebook and Twitter users can “friend” and “follow” Uganda’s mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei) and see videos of them feeding, receive...
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Gameboy Gorilla
This image puts a whole new perspective to the Nintendo classic game, Donkey Kong. At the San Fransisco Zoo, a boy dropped his Nintendo DS into the gorilla enclosure. The following happened. I’m...
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Gorilla Baby Talk
Eva Maria Luëf and Katja Liebal of the Free University of Berlin have published in the American Journal of Primatology a new paper documenting the occurrence of motheresein 24 captive lowland gorillas....
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Loss of Deleterious Genetic Variation Among Mountain Gorillas Due to Inbreeding
This is a family of mountain gorillas from the Virunga volcanic mountain range on the borders of Rwanda, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo.Credit: Gorilla Doctors (UC Davis) The first...
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Newborn Baby Gorilla Enjoys A Nap While Its Mother Keeps Watch
AP Photo by Rick Rycroft A newborn baby Western lowland gorilla naps in the arms of Frala, its mother at Sydney’s Taronga Zoo. It is about a week old and we don’t know if the new addition is male or...
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Wild Gorilla Happy Meal Time Songs
Many animals, including chimpanzees and bonobos, have food related calls… But aside from anecdotal reports, there was no evidence of this behavior in gorillas, until now. A new paper in PLoS One...
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