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Charity sets odd record: Most people in gorilla suits

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:34:05 GMT

Charity sets odd record: Most people in gorilla suits

DENVER (AP) -- An unusual Halloween charity race has set a world record.

The organizers of the Denver Gorilla Run say the 1,061 people ran 3.5 miles dressed as gorillas. That was enough to set a Guinness World Record for the most people in gorilla costume.

The annual Halloween race raises money for the Mountain Gorilla Conservation Fund. The fund raises money to continue the work of Dian Fossey, whose research was the subject of the movie "Gorillas in the Mist."

First-time Denver Gorilla Run racers pay almost $100 to participate -- but registration includes a gorilla suit.

Tags: charities, world-records

photos: The carnivores are turning vegetarian and the vegetarians are turning carnivore?

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:44:48 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Must be Halloween!

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Loose ball growl: The basketballs at Chicago's Brookfield Zoo are awfully heavy. Makes it hard to dribble.

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These intestines are DELICIOUS! Chip the gorilla turns carnivore for a day. (Halloween spaghetti, Detroit Zoo.)

Tags: photos, animals, tigers, gorillas, vegetables

The Animal Kingdom

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 14:03:22 GMT

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There are many different types of animals in the world. Many animals are quite similar to each other. Others are quite different. Animals can be classified based on their similarities. Continue on, and learn more about your fellow Earth inhabitants.

Protozoa
(phyla: protozoa)

Fish
(group: Pisces)

Echinoderms
such as starfish
(phyla: Echinodermata)

Amphibians
such as frogs
(class: Amphibia)

Annelids
such as earthworms
(phyla: Annelida)

Reptiles
such as crocodiles
(class: Reptilia)

Mollusks
such as octopus
(phyla: Mollusca)

Birds
(class: Aves)

Arthropods
such as crabs, spiders and insects
(phyla: Arthropoda)

Mammals
(class: Mammalia)

Crustaceans
such as crabs
(subphyla: Crustacea)

Marsupials
such as kangaroos
(order: Marsupialia)

Arachnids
such as spiders
(subphyla: Chelicerata
class: Arachnida)

Primates
such as gorillas and chimpanzees
(order: Primates)

Insects
(subphyla: Uniramia
class: Insecta)

Rodents
such as mice
(order: Rodentia)

Cetaceans
such as whales and dolphins
( order: Cetacea)

Educational Games

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:16:43 GMT

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Math Baseball
The Plural Girls
Proton Don
Grammar Gorillas
Math Car Racing
All games

Math Arcade
Reading
Arcade
Playground

Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Amelia Writes Again
Brewster Rockit
Silent Kimbly
On the Rocks

Entertainment Center

Tags: homeschool, games, educational

Gorilla poses as prostitute: ACORN tells it to pose as illegal alien instead

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:40:02 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The "gorilla" responded in perfect English: "Do you take Visa or Mastercard?"

"Yes, but not American Express, Diner's Club or personal checks," Riola told the undercover reporter.

Digital video was obtained by ABSNN that showed the ACORN staffer pocketing a large wad of US currency, after counting it several times. She then proceeded to fill out the paperwork.

"I'll sign it for you, since gorillas can't write, but that will cost an additional $395, monkey," she said.

The Crockashit News Network reporter paid the additional money and asked for a receipt, but was denied one due to the fact that ACORN had no such item in stock.

"You'll just have to trust us, sugar. Come back in two weeks for your money, less of course, our 58% fee. Now, get your monkey ass outta here,' Riola told the "gorilla."

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Gorilla poses as prostitute: ACORN tells it to pose as illegal alien instead

ALAMEEDA, AK (ABSNN) -- A Crocashit News Network reporter, dressed in gorilla costume, entered the Alameeda, Arkansas chapter of ACORN Wednesday evening, posing as a teenaged prostitute, and asked ACORN employees how to acquire federal housing funding.

This photo is of a Crocashit News Network reporter dressed as a teenaged prostitute in an AK ACORN office.

The ACORN staffer, Mz. Obamamamma Riola, a former Chicago ACORN staffer, was secretly videotaped telling the "gorilla" that "even the US Government is not stupid enough to award Section 8 housing to a gorilla. You need to pretend to be an illegal alien, say from Rawanda, or some other place in Africa."

Ms. Riola then filled out the funding application for the "gorilla" because, obviously, Riola was aware that Lowland gorillas are unable to write in English.

"Here, I'll fill that out for you. It'll cost you $4592 in US money," she said.

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photo: Gorilla and child

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:14:06 GMT

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Gorilla and child: Ngozi holds her month-old baby at the Toronto Zoo.

Tags: animals, gorillas, parenting, babies, love

Gorilla King Titus buried

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:36:41 GMT

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Clip Source: gorillafund.org

Karisoke staff and researchers brought the body of silverback Titus down from the mountain on Sept. 16, many weeping at the loss of their old friend. Titus, who has been followed by Karisoke staff since his birth in 1974, died on Monday, Sept. 14.

After a necropsy at the offices of the Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project in Ruhengeri, Titus’s body was today carried on a stretcher by ten porters, on a two-hour walk for burial at the site of Dian Fossey’s old camp and her own gravesite. They were led by Karisoke Field Operations Coordinator Jean Bosco Bizimuremyi and a military escort.

The burial site was dug in advance at the edge of a gorilla graveyard, where other important gorillas have been laid to rest, including Titus’s old friend silverback Beetsme.

Back in Bistate village after the ceremony, following Rwandan tradition, drinks were shared among the participants, a poignant conclusion to an emotional and sad day.

Mountain Gorilla Birth

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:43:54 GMT

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Another Birth in Largest Mountain Gorilla Group
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September 2009, Karisoke Research Center Field News

Mountain gorilla Mudakama gave birth to her third infant on August 20, 2009. The birth increased the current size of Pablo’s group to 46 individuals and it maintains the primacy of being the largest known group of mountain gorillas. Pablo’s group, named after a former silverback leader, is one of the mountain gorilla groups that our staff at the Karisoke Research Center has monitored since its formation. It once reached a high of 65 members!

It has been five years since the birth of Mudakama’s previous infant, Agahozo. This is a long inter-birth interval for a mountain gorilla female, considering the expected interval of 3.5-4 years between successive births.

Rare gorillas make Facebook debut

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:17:45 GMT

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Rare gorillas make Facebook debut

Uganda is preparing to make internet stars of its endangered mountain gorillas - with the help of some human stars from Hollywood.

Officials are launching a "Friend a Gorilla" website to allow readers to become friends with the animals on the Facebook site, for a $1 (£0.60) fee.

Jason Biggs, star of high school comedy American Pie, was among the actors in Kampala to help with the launch.

It is not clear how often the gorillas will update their status.

Officials hope to raise the profile of Uganda and raise cash for conservation.

There are only about 700 of the gorillas left in Africa.

They are found on the slopes of the Virunga mountains on the borders of Rwanda, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, where several animals have been killed by armed fighters.

Lillian Nsubuga, of the Uganda Wildlife Authority, told the BBC's Focus on Africa programme she hoped the initiative would raise money for the gorillas and promote Uganda as a tourist destination.

Japanese Town Starts Dolphin Hunt Under Global Spotlight

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 09:13:26 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The film shows angry confrontations between residents and the lead activist, Ric O'Barry, who in the 1960s trained dolphins for the US hit television show "Flipper" but now argues the animals should be free to roam the oceans.

The film won numerous international prizes, including the Sundance Festival's audience award, and last month led the Australian city of Broome to announce it would cancel it sister-city relationship with Taiji.

"Dolphins are a large-brain creature," O'Barry, 69, told AFP during a recent return visit to Japan. "They are highly intelligent, they are self-aware, like gorillas and humans. I nursed them, I watched them give birth.

"And for me, to kill them, is extremely, extremely..." He paused, then simply added: "I don't see the purpose."

In Taiji, where about 3,700 people live, the global uproar stirred by "The Cove" has met with equal incomprehension -- and anger.
Amid the raging controversy, Taiji's fishermen started their annual hunt Wednesday, catc

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TAIJI, Japan - To animal rights activists it's a cruel and bloody slaughter; for Japanese it's a long tradition: this week fishermen in a picturesque coastal town embarked on their annual dolphin hunt.

This file shows Japanese fishermen riding a boat loaded with slaughtered dolphins at a blood-covered water cove in Taiji harbor, Japan's Wakayama prefecture. US environmentalist Ric O'Barry has filmed dolphin hunting at the town of Taiji as an eco-documentary called "The Cove" which has started screening in the US. (AFP/HO/File)

Every year, crews in motorboats here have rounded up about 2,000 of the sea mammals, banged metal poles to herd them into a small, rocky cove and killed them with harpoons, sparing a few dozen for sale to marine aquariums.

In the film, years in the making, a team of underwater cameramen, free divers and other experts used hidden cameras and other technical devices to covertly capture the hunt in graphic detail.

Japanese Town Starts Dolphin Hunt Under Global Spotlight

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 23:31:44 GMT

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Japanese Town Starts Dolphin Hunt Under Global Spotlight

But this year the small southwestern town of Taiji was shunted into the global spotlight with the release of the hard-hitting US-made eco-documentary "The Cove".

In the film, years in the making, a team of underwater cameramen, free divers and other experts used hidden cameras and other technical devices to covertly capture the hunt in graphic detail.

"Dolphins are a large-brain creature," O'Barry, 69, told AFP during a recent return visit to Japan. "They are highly intelligent, they are self-aware, like gorillas and humans. I nursed them, I watched them give birth.

Humans evolved from tree dwelling apes rather than knuckle draggers

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 07:58:44 GMT

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Humans evolved from tree dwelling apes rather than knuckle draggers

The ancient ancestors of humans were tree dwellers, rather than the often depicted knuckle-dragging apes who slowly raised themselves up and evolved into walking humans, claim North American scientists.

Researchers believe that early human ancestors never used their knuckles to walk like gorillas but evolved from other apes that spent most of their time in trees.

They found that although our wrists were capable of 'knuckle walking', our predecessors were more likely to be hanging in trees.

The debate over the origins of human walking upright began during Charles Darwin's lifetime and scientists often depict man in a series of images ranging from knuckle-dragging ape into human walking straight and tall.

But a new study, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, argues that we were more likely to dwell in trees and came down on two feet.

Gorilla sexual intrigue could explain human monogamy

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 20:26:28 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I have always thought that monogamy was a capitalist idea... Not that I wouldn't like to find "my penguin" and be happy ever after!

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Female gorillas use sex as a tactic to thwart their rivals, new research suggests. Pregnant apes court their silverback male to stop other females conceiving.

"It seems to us that mating is another tactic that females use to compete with each other – in this case to gain favour with another male," says Diane Doran-Sheehy, a primatologist at Stony Brook University in New York.

Her team chronicled the sex lives of five female western lowland gorillas and one silverback almost every day for more than three years. "We wondered if, basically, [pregnant] females can mimic [ovulating] females and dupe the male into mating with them and distract him from what those other girls are doing," Doran-Sheehy says.

This kind of competitive behaviour may even help explain how humans evolved into a mostly monogamous species, she says.

poem: "For a Coming Extinction" by W. S. Merwin

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 20:42:41 GMT

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For a Coming Extinction

W. S. Merwin

Gray whale
Now that we are sending you to The End
That great god
Tell him
That we who follow you invented forgiveness

And forgive nothing

I write as though you could understand
And I could say it
One must always pretend something
Among the dying
When you have left the seas nodding on their stalks
Empty of you
Tell him that we were made

On another day

The bewilderment will diminish like an echo
Winding along your inner mountains
Unheard by us
And find its way out
Leaving behind it the future
Dead

And ours

When you will not see again
The whale calves trying the light
Consider what you will find in the black garden
And its court
The sea cows the Great Auks the gorillas
The irreplaceable hosts ranged countless
And fore-ordaining as stars
Our sacrifices
Join your work to theirs
Tell him
That it is we who are important

Tags: poems, poetry, extinction, wildlife, animals, stewardship

Girl gorillas go ape for French pinup hunk

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 14:52:40 GMT

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You don't want to monkey around on a blind date, especially if your friends are also taking an interest in the same dark, handsome stranger.

So when three female gorillas at London Zoo heard that they would soon be visited by a brooding French hunk -- well, they went a bit bananas.

The latest development in Anglo-French relations sees Yeboah, a 20-stone 12-year-old, leave his current home at La Boissiere Du Dore Zoo, Pays de la Loire, northwest France and head for the British capital by the end of the year.

There he will be greeted by gorilla trio Zaire, Effie and Mjukuu, who were given posters of their prospective boyfriend for the first time Thursday.

One female gorilla shrieked in delight, while another wedged the poster in a tree to stare at it.

A third, clearly overcome by emotion, held the photo close to her chest -- then ate it.

Clipmarks | Gorillas Clips

Charity sets odd record: Most people in gorilla suits

photos: The carnivores are turning vegetarian and the vegetarians are turning carnivore?

The Animal Kingdom

Educational Games

Gorilla poses as prostitute: ACORN tells it to pose as illegal alien instead

Gorilla poses as prostitute: ACORN tells it to pose as illegal alien instead

photo: Gorilla and child

Gorilla King Titus buried

Mountain Gorilla Birth

Another Birth in Largest Mountain Gorilla Group « back to field news main page

September 2009, Karisoke Research Center Field News

Rare gorillas make Facebook debut

Rare gorillas make Facebook debut

Japanese Town Starts Dolphin Hunt Under Global Spotlight

Japanese Town Starts Dolphin Hunt Under Global Spotlight

Japanese Town Starts Dolphin Hunt Under Global Spotlight

Humans evolved from tree dwelling apes rather than knuckle draggers

Humans evolved from tree dwelling apes rather than knuckle draggers

The ancient ancestors of humans were tree dwellers, rather than the often depicted knuckle-dragging apes who slowly raised themselves up and evolved into walking humans, claim North American scientists.

Gorilla sexual intrigue could explain human monogamy

poem: "For a Coming Extinction" by W. S. Merwin

Girl gorillas go ape for French pinup hunk

Another Birth in Largest Mountain Gorilla Group
« back to field news main page