Sentences with phrase «of baby gorillas»

There's poaching of baby gorillas, the film just touches on that a little, but we could have had a whole storyline that went much more in depth.

Chessington Zoo was today celebrating the birth of a baby gorilla following the successful use of online dating.

Not exact matches

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.

After tickling the babies of several colleagues and recording their giggles, Davila - Ross traveled the world, recording the laughter of baby chimps, bonobos, gorillas and even a siamang, a gibbon found in Southeast Asia.

The ancient toddler shows key anatomical features of A. afarensis, including a shoulder blade midway in shape between that of a human and a gorilla, along with features rarely seen, like a full set of both baby and adult teeth.

But Byrne, who once observed a gorilla carry her dead baby around for 3 days in the mountains of Rwanda, points out that hospitals and doctors are increasingly giving the parents of a deceased infant the option of remaining with the body of their child for hours or even days before giving it up for burial, as a way of aiding the grieving process.

That's because compared with other primates, humans give birth to babies with larger bodies and brains — on average, human babies are 6.1 % of their mother's body size compared with chimp babies (3.3 %) and gorilla babies (2.7 %).

Deep in the heart of the African jungle, a baby named George, the sole survivor of a plane crash, is raised by gorillas.

As primatologist David Okoye, Dwayne (The Rock) Johnson is mistakenly cast as the kind of person who is good with animals — he's got a real bromance going with George, an albino gorilla who he rescued from poachers as a baby — but awkward with other humans.

October 12, 2011 • Park rangers thwart poachers» plans to sell a baby gorilla in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Koko's Kitten is the story of Koko, a gorilla, who longs to have a kitten as her «baby.»

Here, I thought, was a token gesture of indulgence, the same sort that spurs celebrities to adopt baby gorillas.

A two - year - old baby gorilla named Kamoli is caught on camera playing a game of peek - a-boo with a toddler at Columbus Zoo in Ohio.

As a former veterinary assistant, Nancy worked and cared for a variety of animals, in addition to having worked at the Los Angeles Zoo caring for baby gorillas.

Close to 800,000 animals reside in the zoos and aquariums of the U.S. alone, so there's endless opportunity to watch mother gorillas wrestle with their babies or find out just how much an ostrich egg weighs.

Mountain gorillas rank among the world's most endangered species, numbering just around 800 in the forests of Africa, so any gorilla baby births are a cause for celebration.

For the sixth year running, Kwita Izina, or the baby gorilla naming ceremony, has been held in Rwanda, in the shadow of the Virunga mountains in Volcanoes National Park.

Though the «official» festival has been held since 2005, the tradition of naming baby gorillas is a centuries - old tradition.

Click through to see photos from the event and some of the adorable baby gorillas that were honored.

«The good news is that this infant was rescued before it was too late and is now in good hands,» International Gorilla Conservation Program Director Eugène Rutagarama explained, but added that «the bad news is that people believe there is a market for baby mountain gorillas and are willing to break laws and jeopardize the fate of a critically - endangered species at the chance for profit.»