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Gorillas: Similarities With Humans
Similarities with humans

There are many ways how gorillas are like humans. Read on further to find out more…

Similarly to humans, gorillas have 10 fingers and toes which is not that surprising since most of their behaviours are similar to ours. Furthermore, just like other primates (like humans) gorillas have unique finger prints. Moreover, gorillas suffer the same diseases just like humans including pneumonia and sinusitis, this was discovered during a research project held in Rwanda 1988. Also, gorillas have similar senses to humans like taste touch see smell hear however they cannot taste meat since they are purely vegetarian. Plus, gorillas are 98.67% human so this means that they are 1.33% different to humans. Another fact is that primatologists
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