Posts Tagged gorillas
Gorilla News
Daily updates on the situation in the Congo and how its affecting the gorillas, the park, and the rangers. Check it out!
Add comment November 8, 2008
Sad news
This is really sad and depressing news. Reports of Congolese Rebels eating Mountain gorillas. This article also contains a graphic image that may disturb some.
Also more bad news, 30% of Fish Species in China’s Yellow River are Extinct. Due to overfishing and pollution among others.
Add comment January 21, 2007
Gorilla tool-use
GORILLAS USING TOOLS. It is the first documented use of tools among wild gorillas. Now all the great apes are known to use tools. Evidence that all great apes use tools adds insight to human evolution. It suggests that tool use emerged in primates before humans split from the great apes. Tool-use was once thought a distinguishing characteristic of humans.
Though tool use is likely infrequent among gorillas, the new evidence provides insight to how gorillas see the world and interact with their environment, Breuer said.
“The most fascinating thing about this observation is the similarity [to humans] with which the gorillas solve the problems in this particular habitat,” he said. “If you or me want to cross a swamp, we use the same solutions as gorillas.” [from the NGS article]
Add comment October 6, 2005
