Sentences with phrase «gorilla at»

Half the participants didn't notice the gorilla at all.

The recent tragedy of the killing of Harambe the gorilla at the Cincinnati Zoo has had me seriously reflecting on the very odd and often irrational relationship humans have with wild animals in public displays.

The pathogens get loose in the world, infecting a gator in Florida, a wolf in the Rockies, and a gorilla at the San Diego zoo where Davis Okoye (Johnson) supervises the animals.

A gorilla at a wildlife sanctuary growls and snaps his teeth at a man, two female gorillas and a baby gorilla until a larger gorilla snarls and roars, beating his chest and knocks the first gorilla and a man down (no one is harmed).

Jelani, a gorilla at the Louisville Zoo, has become popular for his apparent love for watching videos on visitors» phones.

Back in the 1980s, when a gorilla at the Bronx Zoo needed to be scanned, zoo staff working with pathologists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine slipped the sedated primate into Montefiore Hospital in the dead of night.

A gorilla at the Philadelphia Zoo has given birth to a healthy baby after a difficult labor that required medical...

In 1947, while working as an instructor for Northwestern University's School of Dentistry, Dr. Boothe was asked to extract a tooth from a popular baby gorilla at Lincoln Park Zoo.

Richard Byrne and Joanne Tanner of St Andrews University in the UK videoed gorillas at San Francisco Zoo.

To find out, behavioral biologist Marina Davila Ross of the University of Portsmouth in Hampshire, U.K., and colleagues watched videos collected over 3 years of gorillas at various zoos and reserves in Germany and Switzerland.

Not exact matches

NV Energy and its upcoming policy change was the «gorilla in the room» at the Clean Energy Summit, Craven said, and during his keynote address, Obama seemed to be speaking between the lines.

But when you look at the traditional approach to advertising, which is fundamentally driven by guesswork, albeit very intuitive and experienced guesswork... The advert I was thinking about... do you remember the Cadbury's advert of a gorilla playing the drums?

It also had gorilla - like shoulder blades which suggest it could have been skilled at swinging through trees.»

The break will then be rendered wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilized state, as we may hope... the Caucasian, and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as at present between the Negro or Australian and the gorilla.

What if our gorilla got a job stocking WalMart shelves late at night?

Thursday night at midnight was like a New Year's Eve party at T.G.I. Friday's, with champagne, confetti, noisemakers, and a guy jumping around in a gorilla suit.

Dr Gladys Kalema - Zikusoka, founder of Gorilla Conservation Coffee, the game - changing for - profit social enterprise which aims to improve the livelihoods of coffee farmers whilst at the same time protecting mountain gorillas in Uganda, has just been recognised by this year's prestigious SEED Awards.

Wistful immigrants from the Belgian Congo, an infant male and an infant female mountain gorilla, cling each to each at New York's Bronx Zoo.

If taker walks backstage at gorilla position and says to Vince that Rusev took care of him, guess what that means?

Yes, the picture is me dressed as a gorilla in Bengals gear at the SD Chargers playoff game.

At first I thought the gorilla had been meticulously potty trained to poop into the moat, making the collection easier for the zookeepers in training who enter the zoo hierarchy on the bottom rung as poop - picker - uppers.

Judging a parent whose kid falls into a gorilla exhibit or who is attacked at a Disney resort by an alligator doesn't prevent those things from happening.

If you were looking for me in the middle of August, you wouldn't have had a banana's chance at a gorilla convention of finding me.

Name (at least) 3 specific play therapy interventions designed for «children / youth of fury» and «fawns in gorilla suits.»

Even in the first week after an election, the Whitehall agents of the 800 lb gorilla of executive power are hard at work on the tiny but irritating squeak of the parliamentary mouse rather than fixing the broken democracy in partnership with parliament, «back to normal working» is not the slogan that will restore the reputation and capability of our democracy.

But it's not at all clear where the Buffalo Republican stands with the next president after making comments widely denounced as racist wishing President Barack Obama dead and saying first lady Michelle Obama should be «let loose in the outback of Zimbabwe» to live with a gorilla.

Nick Clegg used an appearance at the party's annual conference to hit out at Labour for «demonising austerity» - and to compare David Cameron to a gorilla.

So it changed the way we look at endangerment but also caused us to work with the government of Congo to establish new protected areas to work on what we can do to protect the gorillas» health from hemorrhagic fevers or from ecotourism for that matter, because they can catch anything that we have.

As the infection was unlikely to have been caused by direct gorilla - to - human transmission, «it would be surprising if there aren't more human cases», says David Robertson, a bioinformaticist at the University of Manchester, UK, who was part of the team that analysed the virus (Nature Medicine, DOI: 10.1038 / nm.2016).

Because the gorillas seem to be taking account of the thoughts of others, they are showing some theory of mind competence, says Byrne, although they do not pass a standard theory - of - mind test called the false belief test, which looks at the ability to infer another's perspective.

The images, which include skulls from a warthog, gorilla, giraffe and dog, among others, are now on display at Hamiltons Gallery in London.

A psychologist like Coss might have informed administrators that chimpanzees will avoid looking at a toy with prominent eyes, gorillas feel threatened by the blank stare of binoculars, and «one of the most primitive avoidance responses to form exhibited by man today is gaze aversion to the unyielding stare of a stranger.»

At some point no earlier than 300,000 years ago, she says, the gorilla parasite adapted to human blood and jumped species.

It's an important study, says Caroline Tutin, a gorilla expert at the University of Stirling, U.K. «Although the bushmeat crisis is very serious, [this research] shows that not all animals are the same.»

EASY RIDER Gut bacteria have been passed down from the ancestors of humans and African apes for millennia, evolving alongside their hosts, says a new study that looked at bacteria from gorillas, bonobos, chimpanzees and humans.

You know, people have seen gorillas on television or maybe at a zoo for the most part.

A big male gorilla likes to come roaring at you and take a big sweep of his arm and if he hits you with that big sweep, you'll probably feel it.

Elephants, gorillas and other large forest mammals may become extinct in central Africa within 50 years if hunting meat to feed starving populations continues at the current pace.

«Surprisingly, we found that in many ways the gorilla Y chromosome is more similar to the human Y chromosome than either is to the chimpanzee Y chromosome,» said Kateryna Makova, the Francis R. and Helen M. Pentz Professor of Science at Penn State and one of two corresponding authors of the paper.

To demonstrate the utility of the gorilla Y chromosome sequence they generated, the researchers designed genetic markers that can be used to differentiate the genetic relatedness among male gorillas and thus to aid in conservation genetics efforts targeted at preserving this endangered species.

Mountain gorillas and African buffalo that live at high altitudes may, for example, ingest earth as a source of iron that promotes red blood cell development.

«If you look at a chimpanzee or a gorilla, those guys will look right back at you,» he said, «They act just like us.

The reverse — the spread of human diseases to animals — can be equally deadly: At least 5,000 western lowland gorillas have died from the Ebola virus.

Poached ivory fetches at least $ 165 million a year in Asia while our closest living relatives — great apes like chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans — are being kidnapped from the wild and sold to private collectors.

In addition, they sequenced DNA from three other gorillas, including one eastern lowland gorilla, a rare species estimated at only 20,000 individuals.

«It's good to know concrete details about the variation of these gorilla populations,» says Oliver Ryder, a geneticist at the San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research in California who was not involved with the research.

With Aylwyn Scally, a geneticist at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, and others, they compared that data with the western gorilla genome.

Now researchers have analyzed the DNA of a western lowland gorilla named Kamilah, who lives at the San Diego Zoo.

He got sick and died at age 9, never having the opportunity to breed and help the mountain gorillas recover from the low numbers that threaten their existence.

In a year filled with news of devastating population losses among frogs, bats, bees, shorebirds, and salmon, researchers in August reported good news for at least one endangered species: the western lowland gorilla.