name- Gorilla Scientific name- Gorilla gorilla class- mammalia order- primata family- pongidae genus- gorilla The gorillas live mainly in coastal West Africa in the Congo‚ Zaire‚ Gabon‚ Equatorial Guinea and Cameroon. Gorillas live in the rain forest. They usually live on the ground but build nest in trees to sleep in. Gorilla troops keep a 15-20 square mile range which often overlaps the range of other troops. There are three different kinds of gorillas. The eastern lowland gorilla the western
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Should animals be kept in captivity at zoos? or should they be out in the wild where they live? Today‚ I will tell you about the pros and the cons of keeping wild animals in zoos. Today more and more people are becoming aware of the truth behind working of zoos. Zoo is short for "zoological garden". A zoological garden is a place where living animals are kept and exhibited. Zoos have been around since 1500 B.C. Its purpose has changed with time. Originally‚ owning and displaying exotic animals
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Amy Champagne English 2 March 26‚ 2014 Illusion of Memory The Invisible Gorilla In the book‚ The Invisible Gorilla‚ Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons introduce several different illusions and discuss how our intuitions are easily capable of deceiving us. Upon reading this book‚ I find the second chapter‚ Illusion of Memory‚ one of the most interesting ones. In this chapter‚ it reveals that an individual’s memory is very limited and unreliable. The certainty of one’s recollection does not
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plans a trip for seven weeks to Africa where she will study gorillas and meet scientists Louis and Mary Leakey. Fossey goes with the Leakey’s to look at a giraffe fossil at an excavation site. She ends up falling into the ditch where the fossil was‚ breaking her ankle and throwing up all over the fossil. After two weeks of recovering‚ Fossey goes to study gorillas with Alan Root‚ a photographer‚ and his wife‚ Joan. After watching the gorillas‚ Fossey returns to her hometown‚ Louisville‚ Kentucky. Dr
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The gorilla is the world’s largest primate. Gorillas are mammals. Young and younger gorillas are called blackbacks. Older males have white hair on their backs and are called silverbacks. Silverbacks gorillas are the most aggressive person in the group. The duty of the silverback gorilla is to protect others from dangerous threats. They can get angry very fast. The males are twice as big as the females (Morgan 2). The name gorrilla means “hairy person” and was first used by an explorer from North
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Are Zoo’s Good or Bad? Zoos serve as an attraction to people. They are accepted as useful and entertaining amenities‚ which are seen as educational. Children love seeing animals and a visit to the zoo has always been a treat. However‚ we should consider if the zoo is beneficial to people or harmful to animals. It’s cruel to leave animals caged up day in and day out not living in their natural habitats. Zoo animals are kept in enclosures that don’t allow them to live their lives in a natural
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When Edward Albee wrote The Zoo Story in 1958‚ it was the first play that he wrote as an adult and only the second play that he wrote in his lifetime. His only other play was a sex farce that he wrote at the age of twelve. After being passed from friend to friend‚ The Zoo Story traveled from New York to Florence‚ Italy‚ to Zurich‚ Switzerland‚ to Frankfurt‚ Germany and was finally produced for the first time in Berlin‚ Germany. It opened on September 28‚ 1959‚ at the Schiller Theatre Werkstatt. After
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of the western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla). 1. The study could also provide clues about the role and development of kinship in early human society‚ say researchers behind the work. Despite being the most numerous kind of gorilla‚ the western lowland gorilla species is the shyest and least understood. Up to a hundred thousand western lowland gorillas are thought to inhabit the forests of central Africa. 2. Aggressive Interactions Most knowledge of gorilla behavior comes from studies
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About | Gallery | Service | Firms | Fun | Research Design of an animal hospital at Potawatomi Zoo 500 S. Greenlawn Ave.‚ South Bend‚ IN 46615‚ United States of America Jeremy Goodman‚ DVM‚ Assistant Director / Veterinarian‚ Potawatomi Zoo edited by Monika Fiby‚ MLA‚ ZooLex Zoo Design Organization All images © Jeremy Goodman‚ 2003 September 2003 Portuguese translation by Elias Sadalla‚ 2004 Potawatomi Zoo opened an animal hospital in 2002. Significant research was done planning a design for the
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A Zoo for a Primate Observation 11/15/2012 For this paper I decided to visit Zoo Atlanta to observe lowland gorillas. I got to the zoo at around eleven in the morning and found out the feeding times for the gorillas. Once I found them‚ after watching them for a little while I selected the most active group to go watch during feeding. The point of this trip was to make me feel as if I was doing a field laboratory observation of primate social
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