That means that, on the strict taxonomic level, chimps and gorillas are hominids. |
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And we'll also have gorillas, crows, dogs, and the new president of the Royal Society of London. |
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There are these five or six gorillas in monkey suits, who look us up and down and frisk us, and then they wave us through these curtains. |
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The massive star of the new movie King Kong, which opens today, effectively apes real gorillas. |
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It is a fact that we are cousins of gorillas, kangaroos, starfish, and bacteria. |
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Displays of deep caring and empathy across the generations are common in gorillas, and in the other African apes as well. |
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The infection may have played a role in the evolution of such great apes as chimps and gorillas. |
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Sophon suggested that new animals could include giant anteaters from South America, Komodo dragons from Indonesia, or gorillas from Africa. |
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Import gorillas into the backyard, and amplify the wetas to a flesh-crawlingly revolting size, and Tarzan is reborn as one of ours. |
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Amazingly in Rwanda, the warring factions declared they would not harm the gorillas. |
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The team then scrutinized naviculars of A. afarensis, H. habilis, chimpanzees and gorillas. |
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It's been known for some time that great apes such as chimpanzees and gorillas engage in cultural behavior. |
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They are one of four kinds of great apes, along with chimpanzees, gorillas, and bonobos, and the only apes that come from Asia. |
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One or a few chimps or gorillas become ill and then infect the other members of their family group. |
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They found lemurs the size of gorillas, hippos no bigger than pigs and enormous elephant birds. |
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As mountain gorillas are susceptible to human diseases, conservationists had feared the worse. |
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Most Africans have a very close relationship with the land, even the city people, who are squeamish about bugs and scared to death of gorillas. |
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Local attractions include stunning inland seas and intrepid volcano treks, but the stars of the show are the mountain gorillas. |
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I concede that is probably true with respect to most gorillas and most men. |
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Thousands more gorillas, chimpanzees and bonobos have been killed for bushmeat. |
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The argument is at its most powerful when it comes to the great apes chimpanzees, gorillas and orang-utans. |
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Protected species such as elephants, gorillas and chimpanzees are prized, but illegal, pieces of meat. |
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Important studies on elephants, gorillas, chimpanzees and rare and elusive ungulates such as the okapi and duiker have been ongoing for decades. |
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Orangutans and bonobos will be the first to go, then gorillas, and finally chimpanzees. |
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We have chosen values that might plausibly reflect the total species diversity in chimps, gorillas, and orangs. |
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Ebola hemorrhagic fever is a severe, often-fatal disease that affects humans and non-human primates, such as monkeys, gorillas and chimpanzees. |
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Besides the more well-known gorillas, the zoo is home to two families of chimpanzees and a pair of orangutans. |
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In fact, actually compared to chimpanzees and gorillas the orangutans are really much more endangered. |
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The apes nest on the ground like gorillas but have a diet and features characteristic of chimpanzees. |
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No African fossil has ever been found that is related to chimpanzees or gorillas. |
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Gerri and other orphaned gorillas and chimps contribute to our education programme. |
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All extant hominoids with the exception of highland gorillas are strongly frugivorous. |
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Wild gorillas suffer a range of viral and bacterial illnesses as well as internal and external parasites. |
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Indeed such is the real content of many of the primate experiments with chimps and gorillas. |
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It has a relatively short face and canine teeth that are shorter than those of gorillas or chimpanzees. |
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The tigers paced desperately and the gorillas and chimps seemed listless and apathetic. |
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Elephants, forest buffalo, bush pigs, leopards, gorillas, chimpanzees, and several monkey species roam the forests. |
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This is relatively untrodden territory, so you'll find the gorillas here much more elusive and nervous than their mountain counterparts. |
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We would ascribe the brow ridge's extra robustness in gorillas to causes other than eye protection. |
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The net effect is that hunting bonobos, chimpanzees, and gorillas has now become big business. |
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Among his projects have been photoessays on Indian tigers and central African gorillas, commissioned by the World Wide Fund for Nature. |
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So chimps and gorillas could harbour more deadly viruses capable of making the jump to people. |
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The great apes, chimpanzees, orang-utans or gorillas as well as children respond in the same way. |
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If this ancient ape was anything like living chimps and gorillas, it depended mainly on fruits. |
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The only conflict that we're finding between Ugandans and chimps and gorillas is crop raiding. |
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The situation is most dire for primates such as bonobos, chimpanzees and gorillas. |
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Humans are discussed as arrogant and blundering, an unflattering contrast to the innocent and compassionate chimps or gorillas. |
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Yep, just like Jane Goodall, here's my mom trapesing around the jungle to observe the gorillas. |
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Orangutans, gorillas, and their ape relatives, meanwhile, will ineffectually thrash around in deep water or simply gurgle and sink. |
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Humans and gorillas are sister taxa and are more closely related to one another than either is to chimpanzees or baboons. |
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They began by sequencing the SEMG2 gene in humans, chimpanzees, pygmy chimpanzees, gorillas, orang-utans, gibbons, macaques, colobus monkeys, and spider monkeys. |
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But cell phones also include coltan, a mineral extracted in the deep forests of Congo in central Africa, home to the world's endangered lowland gorillas. |
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In addition to humans, gorillas, and a handful of other primates, the only other animal known to live well past its reproductive years is the short-finned pilot whale. |
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At a meeting in South Africa tomorrow, campaigners trying to protect the gorillas will make a last-ditch attempt to persuade Congolese government ministers to intervene. |
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Frugivorous lowland gorillas, for example, should both prefer and be more capable of metabolizing ethanol than their more folivorous montane counterparts. |
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In a tour de force, John Woodmorappe provides scientific evidence for pseudogene function and demolishes the argument that chimps, humans and gorillas share pseudogenes. |
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Osborn chose to ignore Darwin's correct guess that because Africa was where gorillas and chimps lived, the cradle of mankind would be found there. |
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As the chimpanzees fed, our research assistants heard gorillas grunting and moving about in the undergrowth below the tree, apparently feeding on fallen fruits. |
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The young gorillas were released every morning into the small open forest surrounding the zoological park and put back into their cages at night. |
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Langoué and Mbeli Bai use platforms for viewing at 'bais' as it is not possible to follow gorillas into the forest. |
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In either way, weapons, hungry humans and traders condemn gorillas to death for food supply or as a commodity. |
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Western gorillas are widely acknowledged to be difficult to habituate to human presence, thereby limiting tourism potential. |
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The gorillas and chimps perhaps then chomp the half eaten fruit and become ill with a devastating human-like disease. |
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There are only about 650 mountain gorillas left in the wild. |
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The legislation broadly bans the use of great apes such as chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas and orang-utans for scientific testing. |
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Mountain gorillas are just one of the great ape species endangered by war, poachers and habitat loss. |
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Spoor of chimpanzees, gorillas, guenons, elephants and forest buffalo is wide-spread. |
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And how lucky we are that we don't just have to grunt like gorillas or neigh like horses! |
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The gorillas prefer a continuous forest with an abundance of arrowroot, bushes with red berries such as large cherries. |
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Two scabies skin disease outbreaks in mountain gorillas have been associated with people. |
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At this stage, as guests are not in close contact with habituated gorillas, vaccinations are only recommended. |
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If tourists are to be taken for habituated gorillas viewing in the future, vaccinations will be compulsory and ways of control implemented. |
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During his career of nearly six decades, he published over 600 papers and more than a dozen books, on subjects ranging from Australian marsupials to gorillas. |
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Bwindi gorillas live at lower elevations and are more arboreal than gorillas of the Virungas. |
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However, a lentivirus that is genetically similar to HIV has been found in chimpanzees and gorillas in western equatorial Africa. |
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Hippopotamuses, rare mountain gorillas, okapis, antelope, warthogs, and pelicans all live in Virunga as well. |
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In early January, 2 solitary silverback gorillas were killed by soldiers belonging to Nkunda. |
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Mountain gorillas are more herbivorous, and 25 Lowland gorillas are more frugivorous. |
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In addition to its star gorillas, Bwindi is host to elephant, bush pig, giant forest hog and over 300 species of birds including rare forest birds. |
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Establish programmes of local communities consciousness-raising, stressing paricularily on the gorillas. |
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It includes deer, gorillas, chimpanzees, pangolins, elephants and even snakes. |
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At the zoo, people flock to gawp at the chimps, gorillas and orang-utans. |
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Co-run by local Rwandan Edwin Sabuhoro, the company organises guided treks to see the gorillas in the heart of the Parc National des Volcans. |
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Interact with exotic animals in the wild including lions, elephants, gorillas and more as you explore the jungles and savannas of Africa. |
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Accidental entrapment in wire snares used to trap other wild animals is also a threat to the mountains gorillas. |
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Falciparum was confined to apes for many millions of years and jumped, in Africa, from gorillas into humans some time in the past 300,000 years. |
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Elsewhere, species from tiny mouse lemurs to massive mountain gorillas face challenges to survive. |
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Dimorphism is huge among gorillas, where the males are two or three times larger than the females. |
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She stressed the importance of gorillas to their forest habitat and of these forests to climate stability. |
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This limits the maximum number of permits that can be attributed to watch mountain gorillas to about 12 000 per year. |
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Warring factions need funds to sustain their cause, and in forest settings will turn to diamonds, timber, gorillas, coca or poppy. |
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This term includes small animals such as cane rats and large rare ones like gorillas. |
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The southern bank of the river is now the Pongara National Park, famous for its mangroves and beaches, but with no gorillas. |
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At the end of March 2001, I once again had the opportunity of visiting the mountain gorillas in the Volcano National Park in Rwanda. |
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Western Gorillas: Tourism programmes focused on western gorillas were initiated in the 1990s and are of two different types. |
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There are approximately 650 mountain gorillas left in the world, half of which are in Uganda. |
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Some species, like gorillas, have won our hearts and minds simply for their grace and beauty. |
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The success of this program is such that 5 young have been born to once orphaned gorillas. |
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Sleeping on the ground would be too dangerous, so only some male gorillas do it. |
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The great apes, gorillas and chimpanzees, form the core of this zone, which is also home to the mandrill baboon, the bongo antelope, and the red river hog. |
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Chimpanzees, gorillas and orang-utans are all different species of apes. |
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Some apes, such as gorillas, showed no self-recognition whatsoever. |
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At Longleat the children enjoyed the safari park, saw the gorillas watching television and were entertained by clowns organised by the Rotary Club. |
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Other endangered primates now include lemurs in Madagascar, tamarins in Brazil, langurs in Vietnam, orang-utans in Sumatra, and gorillas and a variety of monkeys in Africa. |
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Fossey saw local Rwandan people as barbarous, and went to extreme lengths to protect the gorillas, even killing villagers' cattle and firing guns at them. |
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During an afternoon out at Jenkinson's, JWoww thinks she is surrounded by gorillas and juice heads. |
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Even more cunning, some of the gorillas pretend to be tranquilized. |
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Individual gorillas were identified by face shape, body shape, and pelage coloration. |
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Since the early 1990s, researchers have been applying the technique to spectacled bears, cougars, foxes, pine martens, chimpanzees, gorillas, and many other species. |
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Ten years ago, a population of gorillas in Central Africa was ravaged by the deadly virus. |
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He added that more lengthy studies with fully habituated western gorillas are required to confirm that intergroup interactions are indeed typically peaceful. |
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All 3 gorillas exhibited multiple clear fluidfilled vesicles up to 2 cm in diameter that affected the mucosa of the lips and gingiva. |
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In addition, in 1978, a Veterinary Centre was established in the Virungas to monitor the health of the gorillas, in particular in response to habituation and increasing contact with humans. |
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The Mayombe forest, shared between the Congo, Angola and DRC, forms the southwest margin of the Congo Basin's tropical rainforest and the geographical limits of several forest-dwelling species, including gorillas. |
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There is plenty of clean water rushing down from the peaks and the loamy valley floors are thick with banana, coffee, cassava and silver-backed gorillas. |
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Mountain gorillas have not been hunted for food, and their more open habitat can allow visual contact over hundreds of meters, so they have been relatively easy to habituate to close human presence. |
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Conversely, during repeated censuses in the Virungas, the proportion of immature mountain gorillas has been higher in habituated than unhabituated groups. |
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Although large parts of the original gorilla distribution area have been deforested already, gorillas still live in or near all the places where the type specimens were collected. |
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Their survival will depend on whether we manage to curb the habitat fragmentation, poaching and disease which threaten the remaining gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos and orangutans. |
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Chimpanzees, gorillas and bonobos are also threatened with extinction. |
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Rebels in eastern Congo have killed and eaten two silverback mountain gorillas, say conservationists, who fear that more of the endangered animals may have been slaughtered in the lawless region. |
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Despite the premature death of 3 of the gorillas from stress related to a sudden change in their surroundings, overall the gorillas acclimatised well and were to lead the way for further successes. |
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Aircraft are all nubivagant, gorillas are all nemorivagant, and a holiday in Snowdonia could be described as a montivagant weekend. |
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Some animals that are part of SSP programs are giant pandas, lowland gorillas, and California condors. |
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Uganda is home to roughly half the world's 700 or so mountain gorillas, and this new group tour for older families should see you locking eyes with at least one. |
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The number of mountain gorillas in Rwanda is now in a far healthier state, thanks to companies such as Rwanda Eco-Tours which has convinced local communities that these magnificent animals are worth more alive than dead. |
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Low, throaty grunts echo from either side of the path, but the forest canopy is too thick for you to spot the gorillas until you are in their midst. |
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Is it the genetic proximity of human beings and gorillas? |
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An estimated 73,000 were found in the Ntokou-Pikounda region and 52,000 in the Ndoki-Likouala landscape, where a previously unknown population of nearly 6,000 gorillas was discovered in an isolated raffia swamp. |
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The gorillas and the common chimpanzee live in family groups of around five to ten individuals, although much larger groups are sometimes noted. |
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In contrast, groups of gorillas stay together regardless of the availability of fruit. |
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In both chimpanzees and gorillas, the groups include at least one dominant male, and females leave the group at maturity. |
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Indeed, studies of gorillas and elephants have shown that the disturbance caused by selective logging favours a rich understorey of plants that are a favourite food of both gorillas and elephants. |
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When the forces of former Army General Laurent Nkunda moved into the Virunga National Park in the eastern Congo in October this year, the park's 53 rangers were forced to flee, leaving the 200 mountain gorillas unprotected. |
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The proposed ban on using great apes such as chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas and orang-utans for scientific testing was broadly endorsed by both delegations during the negotiations. |
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Two enclosures will recreate the African rainforest and savannah and will feature over 40,000 types of plants and a variety of animals including western lowland gorillas, dwarf crocodiles, warthogs and hippos. |
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These bite-size snack squares feature baby cheetahs, gorillas, pandas, and koalas in relief, making them as cute as they are tasty. |
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Uganda suggested that as the range of gorillas coincided with the range of other primates and because of the link to the GRASP, the Agreement should also include chimpanzees and bonobos. |
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The young gorillas were becoming more and more difficult to keep within the confines of the small forest surrounding 13 the Brazzaville zoological park. |
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Tests for Hepatitis B, HIV and tuberculosis are carried out, and the gorillas are vaccinated against polio, tetanus, diphtheria, rubella, mumps and measles. |
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Findings were confirmed by comparing similar regions of the Y chromosome in humans to the Y chromosomes of chimpanzees, bonobos and gorillas. |
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In Africa they represent a particular threat to precious forest fauna, including chimpanzees, bonobos and gorillas, by connecting forests to the fast-growing cities where bushmeat is prized. |
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Even though humans are labelled as hairless apes, they have more hair follicles per square inch of skin than other great apes such as chimpanzees and gorillas. |
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The area incorporates mixed and Marantaceae forest types and an abundance of forest clearings supporting exceptional densities of a number of charismatic large mammals, including gorillas. |
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Among the higher primates, for example, those of chimpanzees are slightly oval, those of gorillas and humans have shallowly notched edges, and those of orangutans have edges that are deeply notched. |
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These inventories assessed the abundance and distribution of megafauna species such as elephants, gorillas, chimpanzees, Forest buffaloes and forest antelopes. |
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Several research projects continued to work throughout the civil war, in particular WCS, the Max Planck Institute, and in Kahuzi-Biega NP a project on sympatric gorillas and chimpazees, with Kyoto University. |
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As the museum's senior diorama artist, he has masterminded the scenes that make the crowds ooh and ahhh: the big blue whale, the huge coral reef, the gorillas beating their chests, the archaeopteryx, the acanthostega. |
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Training of guides should be improved, but it seems inevitable that close encounters will go on occurring for as long as tourists are allowed to visit wild mountain gorillas. |
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One possible explanation for a high death rate among mountain gorillas noted in the late 1980s is an outbreak of measles. |
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Visiting gorillas or chimpanzees in their natural environment is an exceptional trilling experience and has been promoted the last decades as a sustainable way for conservation. |
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The area is characterized by intact lowland rainforest harbouring significant populations of large mammals, including forest elephants, gorillas and chimpanzees. |
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It is home to one of the largest remaining populations of gorillas and chimpanzees on the continent, and also harbours significant populations of other endangered large mammal species including forest elephants and bongo. |
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There were gorillas, chimpanzees, buffaloes and leopards. |
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This provides a value that has been used to correct for the potential overestimation of chimpanzees at sites where they are sympatric with gorillas. |
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At home in the tropical rainforest: gorillas, mandrills, bongos and forest elephants live in the African rainforest, the second largest in the world. |
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For example, orangutans are found in the Tanjung Puting Biosphere Reserve in Indonesia, while chimpanzees and gorillas inhabit the Dja Biosphere Reserve in Cameroon. |
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The interbreeding came after this time. The researchers, along with other scientists across the world, are now working to sequence the complete genome of other close relatives to humans, including gorillas and orangutans. |
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It hosts many emblematic species, such as polar bears, gorillas, okapis, lemurs, giant turtles and tortoises, European bisons and American wapitis. |
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Besides, in accordance with the Order Law relating to the preservation of the nature, each person who patures or kills gorillas in an strict nature preserve is exposed to imprisonment penalty from 1 to 10 years. |
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The poachers specifically sought out these particular gorillas, waiting for a time when they knew no researchers would be around before killing them. |
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Gorilla nests on transects showed a preference only for mixed species forest with an open canopy, but direct observations and traces on reconnaissance surveys clearly indicated that gorillas use several habitat types. |
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This discovery should be a rallying cry for the world that we can protect other vulnerable and endangered species, whether they be gorillas in Africa, tigers in India, or lemurs in Madagascar. |
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The gorillas are currently classified as Eastern Lowland Gorillas, but are morphologically different to those elsewhere and may yet be reclassified as a distinct subspecies. |
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Users can view skeletons of human beings, gorillas and baboons. |
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Species close to the last common ancestor of gorillas, chimpanzees and humans may be represented by Nakalipithecus fossils found in Kenya and Ouranopithecus found in Greece. |
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In January, wildlife officials reported that, during the preceding 18 months, 10 mountain gorillas had been born in Africa's Virunga National Park. |
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Britain has already forbidden the use of great apes such as chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutangs in testing, and the days of Beagles chain-smoking are long gone. |
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Poaching, human-transmitted diseases, habitat destruction, and decreasing biodiversity threaten the future of the mountain gorillas of the Virunga Mountains of Africa. |
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Since Bongo was elected in 2009, Gabon has stepped up anti-poaching patrols in its 13 national parks which are also home to elephants and gorillas. |
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