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Posts Tagged ‘gorillas’
Climate Change, Conservation, Videos & Documentaries, Wildlife & Flora, Dec 23rd, 2011,
According to a UN report an increase in global temperatures puts up to 1/3 of all Earth’s animals at risk of extinction. The gorillas of Rwanda’s Virunga Mountains in central Africa are already at risk from rising temperatures. Changes in rainfall and hotter weather mean the vegetation the gorillas depend on changes growth patterns, moving up the mountain into higher altitudes. The gorillas provide Rwanda with tourist revenue and the rainfall in the Virunga Mountains feeds rivers and provides hydro electricity for the already poor and vulnerable African nation. From Reuters: Many ecosystems have already been stressed by increasing population,…
Tags: Africa, Climate change, gorillas, Rwanda, Virunga
Videos & Documentaries, Wildlife & Flora, Jul 17th, 2010,
Video footage taken by researchers at five different European zoos shows gorillas tapping each other on the shoulder and then running away while the gorilla who has been tapped gives chase. The young gorillas appear to be playing a game of tag, just like human children. A group of scientists from European universities has published research in the Royal Society journal Biology Letters exploring how gorillas play and test what is socially acceptable behavior. From an article in the Telegraph: By playing both chaser and the chased, the apes develop a better understanding of fleeing and pursuit and greater levels…
Tags: European, gorillas, play, tag, video
Conservation, Jul 1st, 2010,
Primatologist Ymke Warren has been murdered in her home in the upscale neighborhood of Limbe, Cameroon. The murder took place on Tuesday morning when an assailant, who had presumably been hiding in Warren’s attic, attacked her with a machete. Warren lived together with partner Aaron Nicholas, also a primatologist and director of a gorilla project in Cameroon, who returned home minutes after the attack. Nicholas took Warren to the hospital, but her injuries were too severe. The couple were working on the Takamanda-Mone Landscape Project, run by the American Wildlife Conservation Society. They were studying Cross River gorillas, one of…
Tags: Africa, British, Cameroon, Cross River, Dian, Fossey, gorilla, gorillas, killed, Limbe, murdered, Nicholas, primatologist, Warren, Ymke
Videos & Documentaries, Wildlife & Flora, Sep 23rd, 2009,
They’re big, they’re vegetarian and they’re very much like us. Except they mind their own business. Yet political conflict, the bush meat trade and human thirst for wealth and natural resources are wiping out these gentle, majestic primates. Check out this documentary on mountain gorillas by VBS. The Vice Guide to Travel: Gorillas in the Midst VBS travels to Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo where the mountain gorillas – 200 of the earth’s last 720 — are in a desperate fight for their survival. -vbs.tv By Graham Land Additional resources: The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International…
Tags: gorillas, mountain gorilla
