Western Lowland Gorilla

Gorillas are another example of primates that exhibit sexual dimorphism. The females average 158 pounds, while the males average 374 pounds. Gorillas are vegetarian but all eat some insects and small animals. Gorillas can climb trees but spend most of their time on the ground where they walk on their knuckles and feet. Like the orangutans they reproduce slowly;

existing correlation between humans and primates. First, I studied a female chimpanzee with her baby, and then, a dominant male gorilla, in San Francisco Zoo at about noon, on May 23, 2015, for an hour each. Even though they share some similarities such as having a large brain, living for a long time, and being bored in their enclosure, they are still different; when gorillas are the largest, chimpanzees are the smartest. In fact, chimps use tools to catch food, they would not be able to reach

Humans came from primates, as scientific studies have shown gorillas and chimpanzees having a common ancestor with humans (Smithsonian, 2017, para. 3). If we historically came from these primates the question still remains of why do humans feel morally superior to these primates? After all, bonobos and chimpanzees

Task 1 How is global warming affecting the arctic? • The arctic is estimated to be ice free by 2030 due to global warming and the melting of the ice caps. • The law against the use of CFC’s in products such as hair spray aerosols and some paints luckily was made in 1994 to make it illegal to sell any product with harmful CFC’s in. • Recent studies have said that the time between a child been born this year to the age of them being 80 the worlds temperature will have risen by 6 and a half degrees

On May 28, 2016, tragedy struck, when a three-year-old boy fell into a gorilla cage inhabited by a 440-pound male silverback, named Harambe. Inside the Cincinnati Zoo, chaos ensued, as the mother of the child panicked, horrified by the gorilla dragging her son by the arm and leg across the enclosure. Harambe had climbed down to investigate the child who was stuck in the corner of the moat, simply wishing to inquire about what was occurring. In the end, Harambe was tragically killed, as the zookeepers

which was a gorilla and two different species of new world monkeys, which were the Bolivian Grey Titi Monkey and also the Golden Lion Tamerin. The first type of primate I observed was a Bolivian Grey Titi Monkey which is a type of new world monkey species found in areas of eastern Bolivia and also can be found in Brazil. The scientific term for this species is Callicebus donacophilus. These types of monkeys have medium sized body

the larger animals get put away earlier, I figured my first stop would be at an ape enclosure. The ape I chose to see that day was the gorilla. The time that I began my observation was at approximately 3:05. At that time only one ape was quite visible and he was sitting at the front making eye contact with me making it seem as if he is HABITUATED. Next, post gorilla watching, I had the chance to take a gander at the ring railed lemurs at 3:40. These prosimians all had their own personalities which

he family of a boy who entered a Cincinnati Zoo gorilla 's enclosure last weekend -- spurring zoo officials to shoot and kill the animal -- will be the focus of an investigation into the incident, Cincinnati police said Tuesday. The 3-year-old boy was dragged across a moat by the 450-pound gorilla on Saturday. After a 10-minute encounter, Cincinnati Zoo officials shot and killed the beloved and endangered gorilla, named Harambe. The boy was not seriously injured. Cincinnati police said Tuesday that

With only two hundred and fifty to three hundred left, the critically endangered Cross River Gorilla roams the African forests while on the brink of extinction (Save Our Species). Africa has many populations of primates that are at the least endangered, and the Cross River Gorilla is the closest to extinction and the least studied due to the rarity of observing them. (Save Our Species). These gorillas are confined to small, mountainous areas that have been separated over and over again by fragmentation

crowd size had a negative impact on the gorillas at the Belfast Zoological Gardens in Northern Ireland. The gorillas had increased aggression during large crowd sizes and appeared less stressful during low visitor periods. However, some populations of gorillas did not show an increase in undesirable behavior in relation to larger crowd size. In Kuhar (2008) there were no significant findings that suggested crowd size played any role in the behavior of the gorillas. In a study conducted by Ross and Lukas