My initial reaction once I heard about Koko, a gorilla that was being taught communication skills by a researcher, I was a little defensive. I am a strong believer that animals should not be kept in captivity, but rather, should be able to experience wildlife like they are intended to. However, as I began to see Koko as a baby and the bond that she had built with Patty Patterson, my outlook began to change. It was so adorable to see how Koko took to Patterson and not only participated in her activities, but seemed to enjoy them. The researchers treated Koko with respect and Koko did not seem to mind their company. I like how Patty discussed that they would celebrate Koko’s upcoming birthday and provide her with presents and a cake, something …show more content…
It was clear that Koko was picking up on signs very quickly and seemed advanced for just any old gorilla. Koko knew over 300 signs that she used “to convey deep and complex motions”. There was a part in the video when a man explained his encounter with Koko the first time that he had met her. Patterson introduced him as a “friend” and Koko grabbed his hand and signed for him to open a door so that she could receive something that she had wanted. Koko had a very high level of understanding that without this man’s key, she would be unable to get into the room to retrieve the object that she wanted. This intrigued me because I could not believe that Koko was able to contextualize the steps that would be required to get into the room, something that not even young children can comprehend. As the film progressed, they showed how they introduced a male gorilla named Michael to Koko in hopes that one day when he was older, they would mate. It was cute to see how the two gorillas interacted socially the first time that they had their encounter. This scene really caught my interest because even though Michael was not a baby, they still were able to teach him sign language. This was intriguing because it showed how much the gorillas could adapt to certain situations and comply with orders despite their
But Harambe was born and raised at Cincinnati Zoo. This specific gorilla had no wild instincts whatsoever. He doesn’t know what it’s like to be in the wild and experience a true intruder. He does have natural gorilla instincts but because he was born and raised in the zoo he is technically very calm for a silverback gorilla. I believe the zoo could have taken another route originally when the boy fell in before Harambe had gotten near him.
Project Nim is about a baby chimpanzee that was sent to live with humans as an experiment by Columbia. While the chimpanzee was with his first family under Jenny Lee, the experiment was to try to communicate with the humans. My visceral reaction was heartbreaking and unfortunate of the outcome of experiment. I believe in the beginning under Lee, she did not do a good job working with Nim. Lee didnt control Nim and was a victim to bitings and cuts. Further down the line, he ended up being caged up in a medical research facility because of his behavior of biting and assualt. Watching an animal being caged up and drugged/experimented on is sickening. I believe that animal should be set free to live with his mom in the wild. However, my intellectual reaction understands the these scientist are trying to enhance the human kid.
What do you think happens when a caged gorilla is given some paper and paints? Would you believe he could change the quality of life for himself and the other animals around him? Well, that’s exactly what Ivan did in the book, “The One and Only Ivan”; a realistic fiction, by Katherine Applegate.
Also the enclosure had a lot of roaming room and resting areas for the great apes. Seven gorillas populated this exclosure and it was not an exhibit of mixed species. While I visited the Western Lowland Gorilla I mostly observed them resting. However there was a small baby in the exhibit which interacted and watched the visitors while climbing all over its resting mother. After a while the baby started feeding on it mother and once it was done it climbed on her back as she began to roam around the enclosure. It was very intriguing to watch the baby interact with its mother and witness it being
Perlman and his group of colleagues worked closely with the infamous 40-year-old gorilla Koko, who is known for her ability to communicate with humans since she has learned American Sign Language. The researchers, after watching her for 71 hours, discovered that Koko has developed behaviors which are outside the abilities of gorillas. Koko can blow her nose into a tissue, play wind instruments, clean a glass huffing moisture, cough on command and chatter into a telephone.
Two living creatures can bond emotionally, and they don’t even need words to speak to each other. That’s precisely what happened when park ranger Patrick Karabaranga comforted a mountain gorilla shortly after the gorilla’s mother was killed by poachers in July 2012.
Many people have expressed their anger for this unfortunate incident. This issue is very controversial for the zoo and the parents. The zoo claims that they did not have the option to tranquilize the gorilla instead, which would have spared the life of Harambe. There was also a large amount of accusations thrown
Finally, after six months of seeing nothing, Sambeggar and Fossey found a group of gorillas nosing their ways through the thick underlay of the forest. As Fossey stares in amazement at the beautiful group of gorillas, the lead “silver back” spots them. He begins to charge at them. Fossey and Sambeggar retreat through the woods and escape the huge “silver back”.
The Invisible Gorilla is a book that describes the everyday illusions we persistently experience and act upon. The basis of the book stems from the “Gorillas in our Midst” experiment conducted by authors Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons. In this experiment, they had volunteers watch a video of two teams, one wearing white shirts and the other wearing black shirts, passing a basketball. The volunteers were asked to carefully count the number of passes made by the white team while ignoring any passes by the black team. The purpose of the study, however, was not to gauge how well they could count basketball passes, but to see if they would notice a person wearing a gorilla suit who stopped in the middle of the players and thumped their chest halfway through the video.
The part of the story told by the movie the move that was the most powerful was how the poachers treated the mountain gorillas. The poachers only need the hands and the head of the gorillas to sell, and most didn’t take any of the meat. In the movie they showed a band of gorillas and their growing families, and how they interacted with each other. The focus was on one particular family, the father, mother, and baby gorilla. When the poachers attacked it was frantic as the camera moved around, giving off a sense of panic. Then when everything was over in a matter of seconds the camera focused on the father gorilla. Laying on the forest floor without a head and arms, this part of the movie made me see how real a situation and what a true tragedy
A recent zoo tragedy that has resulted in a death, has left a traumatizing mark on a zoo, mother, and the child. Harambe; a seventeen year old western iowland gorilla who was shot and killed. Harambe’s type of species is at risk for extinction, and his death has been a constant debate on social media, whether it was the zoos, mother, child, or Harambes fault for this event occurrence. In this case, there are so many precautions that could have been taken into action to have prevented this from happening. According to interviews the mother took her eye off of the child for a “second” and so he apparently “fell into the exhibit”. A child does not just fall into the gorilla habitat, his curiosity for the animal was his motivation at the moment.
My weblogs are normally about pets. As a creature fan, however, I am so angered and saddened by the latest occurrence at the Cincinnati Zoo that I can’t help but talk out. Piecing together various records, here’s what happened: A 4-year-old boy indexed through a hurdle and dropped into a gorilla housing. Zookeepers quickly shifted the 2 women gorillas into another position, but the 17-year old men gorilla was still within. An eyewitness revealed that the gorilla “rushed toward the boy and led him by the arm through the standard water in the housing,” and that he, “seemed protection and only frightened by all the shouting.” The boy was in the housing
All animals, all living things shouldn’t be treated cruelly. Most animals are defenseless and haven’t done anything wrong and we humans have the ability to treat them kindly and help those animals who are being tested on and being hunted down one by one for their fur, tusks, skin, feathers, or just as trophies, etc. I choose the Silver Spring Monkey case because as I was reading about it and looking at pictures of the terrible conditions of them I knew that I had to write about it. I feel very strongly about animals I don't like to see them mistreated it breaks my heart and even though I wish I could do more about all those animals who unfortunately haven’t had a very fortunate life and have suffered greatly; I will continue to take surveys for them and do whatever I can to help. The Silver Spring monkeys were 17 wild-born macaque monkeys from the Philippines who were kept in the Institute of Behavioral Research in Silver Spring, Maryland.
Animals are mostly known for their qualities and their effects they have on life whether it benefits humans by consumption or a friend to play with, but when people use them for their own advantage without thinking about how the animals feel, those who care for them recognize that animals are being abused. In the article “I Acknowledge Mine” by Jane Goodall, her tone for her persuasive article is to make the readers feel sorrowful for the animal’s environment while being tested in labs. Jane Goodall believes that the chimpanzees in laboratories are being tormented and abused by the scientists doing experiments on them because of the environments they are placed in such as cages, enclosures, or even cells for most of their lives.
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