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- Gorillas - Mountain (African Wildlife Foundation)
Provides facts and a picture. "The gorilla is shy and retiring rather than ferocious and treacherous. It usually seeks no trouble unless harassed but will valiantly defend its family group if threatened." Mountain Gorillas are endangered - "Only about 630 of these individuals remain." 1-01
- Gorillas, A Conversation (PBS)
Provides information about communication with gorillas, especially Koko, a gorilla who can use sign language. 3-00
- Gorillas - Mountain (Kids' Planet)
Includes a description and a drawing.
- Gorillas Endangered Species Program (WWFUS.org)
Provides news and programs to support endangered gorillas. "The largest of the great apes, gorillas are among our most endangered species. Having endured decades of civil war in the region, gorillas are confronted by the devastating consequences of increased habitat loss, poaching for the bushmeat trade and the spread of dangerous diseases like Ebola." 12-03
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- Young Gorillas Dismantling Traps (National Geographic)
"Just days after a poacher's snare had killed one of their own, two young mountain gorillas worked together Tuesday to find and destroy traps in their Rwandan forest home, according to conservationists on the scene." 07-12
- Gorilla Sign Language (PBS Online and Nature)
Teaches how to sign with Koko, the gorilla. Requires the (free) Flash plug-in. 7-00
- Gorilla Species (WWFUS.org)
"There are four subspecies of gorillas, two of which are categorized as western gorillas, and two as eastern gorillas. All of these subspecies - western lowland gorilla, Cross River gorilla, Grauer's and mountain gorillas - are found only in Africa and all are threatened with extinction in the wild. Gorillas continue to face threats such as hunting for the pet and bushmeat trades, as well as habitat loss caused by logging, mining and human encroachment. These majestic great apes vary in population and distribution across their range states, yet share a common need: Each of the four subspecies requires active conservation measures and commitment to ensure their future survival in the wild." 12-03
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- Gorilla Using Tools (CBS News)
"A young gorilla in a Congo sanctuary is smashing palm nuts between two rocks to extract oil, surprising and intriguing scientists who say they have much to learn about what gorillas can do, and about what it says about evolution."
"It had been thought that the premeditated use of stones and sticks to accomplish a task like cracking nuts was restricted to humans and the smaller, more agile chimpanzees." 9-05
- Hominids (Wikipedia.org)
"Hominid is any member of the biological family Hominidae (the 'great apes'), including humans, chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans." Provides definitions of the confusingly similar terms: Hominidae, hominine, Homininae, hominin, Hominini, hominan, and Hominina. 03-06
- Planet of the Apes Series (New York Times)
"But most of the interest of the original “Planet of the Apes” and its sequels lies in their skewed, satiric take on human nature. The apes are disconcertingly like us, and it’s fun both to imagine them as better than we are and to watch their civilization developing some very familiar discontents. They have race and class issues and a rather rigid social hierarchy: orangutans rule, gorillas enforce, and chimpanzees do most of the intellectual work — subject to the approval of the orangutans, who sit in judgment like the Académie Française or the Holy Office. The chimp scientists who try to save Taylor are accused of heresy: the orangutans and the gorillas are, to an ape, staunch creationists."
"In the four immediate sequels — 'Beneath the Planet of the Apes' (1970), 'Escape From the Planet of the Apes' (1971), 'Conquest of the Planet of the Apes' (1972) and 'Battle for the Planet of the Apes' (1973) — the back story of humankind’s demise and the apes’ ascent gets filled in a bit, with tricky timelines." 07-11
- -Planet of the Humans, Not Apes (CNN News)
"The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) estimates that there are at most 500,000 great apes left living in the wild—about the population of Fresno. (Great apes include gorillas, orangutans, chimpanzees and bonobos.) We've whittled down the populations of our simian cousins through deforestation—which destroys their habitat—and through hunting, including for meat. Even infectious disease is a major risk—it's thought that 25% of the world's gorilla population has died because of Ebola, a deadly fever that currently poses a much greater threat to apes than it does to us. The nonhuman primates look scary in Rise of the Planet of the Apes, but in reality, our closest cousins are in deep trouble. 'The current reality of great ape populations is more of a tragedy than an action thriller,' says Richard Carroll, the head of WWF's Africa program and a gorilla expert. 'If we as humans can't protect our nearest living relatives, then we've failed as a species.' "
"Meanwhile, there are nearly 7 billion humans living on every corner of the planet. It wasn't always this way. More than 10,000 years ago, before the development of agriculture, there may well have been more apes than humans—and at the time, we may not have looked like a very good evolutionary bet. Now humans utterly dominate the world, leaving less and less room and resources for wild animals. The hot new term for our current geologic era is the Anthropocene, which reflects the fact that human beings—through carbon emissions, resource use and simple numbers—are now the major force on the planet, capable of changing the genome and the climate alike. It's still a Planet of the Humans—and that's still bad news for the apes." 08-11
- -Ebola Virus Disease (World Health Organization)
"Ebola virus disease (formerly known as Ebola haemorrhagic fever) is a severe, often fatal illness, with a death rate of up to 90%. The illness affects humans and nonhuman primates (monkeys, gorillas, and chimpanzees)."
"Infection occurs from direct contact through broken skin or mucous membranes with the blood, or other bodily fluids or secretions (stool, urine, saliva, semen) of infected people. Infection can also occur if broken skin or mucous membranes of a healthy person come into contact with environments that have become contaminated with an Ebola patient’s infectious fluids such as soiled clothing, bed linen, or used needles." 10-14
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