MetaFilter posts tagged with gorillas

More gorillas exist than previously thought

Daddy-O — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 08:03:32 -0800

A previously unknown population of 125,000 lowland gorillas have been discovered in the swamps of the Congo Republic. Enjoy them while they last.

Illustrations of primates

salvia — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 11:31:35 -0800

Look at that tail! Stephen Nash has illustrated the most endangered primates (image gallery: part 1, part 2) -- so faithfully over the years that one now bears his name. The just-released "Primates in Peril" report has full profiles of each animal, along with all of Nash's illustrations (including those replaced by photos in the gallery above -- don't miss the sumatran orangutan!).

Gorilla warfare

gsteff — Fri, 25 May 2007 18:01:32 -0800

A band of Congolese rebels is threatening to kill all of the Virunga mountain gorillas. Two-hundred Mai-Mai fighters attacked conservation posts in the violence-prone Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in response to government efforts to protect Virunga National Park from settling and poaching. Virunga is home to roughly half the world's 700 remaining mountain gorillas (and was the workplace of Diane Fossey). Last year, Mai-Mai fighters killed nearly half of the park's hippos, eating the meat and selling the teeth as ivory, and in January they killed and ate two silverbacks. The increased violence is part of a trend that has accompanied attempts to integrate the area's independent militias- mostly remnants of groups that fought in the Congo civil war, then refused to disband- into the national army, and some observers believe that the war, which already killed 4 million, may reignite.

A Pliocene love that dare not speak its name?

homunculus — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 20:19:13 -0800

How Do You Get Crabs From A Gorilla? One of many little evolutionary cases Carl Zimmer tackles in The Parasite Files.

"A little bit like Superman."

MrMoonPie — Wed, 24 May 2006 08:11:41 -0800

Bill Frist <3s gorillas. I find this quite charming.

Ook

Capn — Tue, 22 Feb 2005 12:17:56 -0800

A gallery of gorilla (and ape, and chimp, and monkey, and bonobo) comic book covers via Neil Gaiman's blog

You damned dirty ape!

miss lynnster — Fri, 18 Feb 2005 10:15:28 -0800

If you're going to work with Koko the Gorilla, the famous talking ape, you've got to know more than sign language. Allegedly, Dr. Penny Patterson insists you've also gotta show your boobs... who knew?

Love's Labors Lost

mudpuppie — Mon, 07 Feb 2005 11:39:57 -0800

Poor Oscar can't get any. Maybe he needs some tips on how to deal with the dirt-flinging girl in his life? Maybe he needs some other kind of help?

Bye, bye Floquet!

samelborp — Mon, 24 Nov 2003 08:17:31 -0800

Copito de Nieve, a.k.a. Floquet de Neu, the only known white gorilla dies at age 37. It was one of the symbols of my hometown Barcelona. Snowflake was the star of the Barcelona Zoo, he always surrounded by female gorillas (not surprisingly he produced 22 offspring but none of them albino) and was famous because of his bad mood and tendency to throw things around. He was finally put down today as his skin cancer condition was aggravating. There it goes a no small part of my childhood (although I preferred the dolphins, always so cheerful)... Snowflake no longer lives with Virunga and Coco... (sigh!)

Mick — Thu, 06 Apr 2000 06:53:20 -0800

The Guerrilla Banner Project It's not my website, but I am a participant. Does that make me a linkwhore?