Sentences with phrase «of wild gorillas»

Many of the artist's works take the space where people and animals meet as their subject, exploring the experiences of wild gorillas in a Cameroon park, a wolf trained to work in Hollywood films, a monkey - inhabited temple in India, zebras at an exotic animal farm, dolphins in the Caribbean, and trained horses at Medieval Times Dinner and Tournament.

Does your dream adventure consist of witnessing the magnificent herds of wildebeest stampeding through the Serengeti, are you in search of rare encounters with Africa's largest elephant population in Chobe, or catching remarkable glimpses of wild gorillas as you trek through their natural habitats in Rwanda?

Teams of veterinarians take to the mountains of Rwanda to safeguard the health of wild gorillas.

Not exact matches

She's made the Forbes Midas List twice, and, according to the Silicon Valley Business Journal, has also «taught in Kenya, trekked after wild gorillas in Africa and now serves as chairperson of the Somaly Mam Foundation, which focuses on ending sex slavery of underage girls around the world.»

Animals in the wild such as gorillas don't typically go on murdering sprees because it wouldn't be in its best interest to do so not because he thinks it's immoral and won't go to heaven but because of the realistic consequences.

Here is the exclusive story of what they found — plus the first close - up pictures ever made of gorillas in their native wild

«This summer, journey to the Bronx Zoo's Wild Forest to check out giant LEGO sculptures of tigers, flamingos, gorillas, and other exotic wildlife, then visit their real - life counterparts around the zoo.

So far only one person, a 62 - year - old Cameroonian woman living in Paris, France, has been found to be infected with the virus, which closely resembles strains of simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) recently discovered in wild western gorillas.

There, he wrote rhapsodically and painstakingly about gorillas in the wild, changing public perception of the animal forever.

Walsh plans to use a similar GPS - enabled version of the device to track wild western lowland gorillas.

He and his colleagues obtained feces from 24 gorillas living in Cameroon, 47 chimpanzees from Gombe National Park in Tanzania, 24 wild bonobos from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and 16 people from Connecticut.

The finding was bad enough: During the last two decades, the population of wild chimpanzees and gorillas in the West African nations of Gabon and the Republic of the Congo has declined by more than half.

Howard Ochman of the University of Austin in Texas and his team sequenced the gut microbiomes of hundreds of wild chimpanzees, bonobos and gorillas, and those of hundreds of humans living in US cities and in Venezuela and Malawi.

Without aggressive intervention, wild chimps and gorillas could be pushed to the brink of extinction in just one decade.

To see if they make these noises in the wild, Eva Luef, a primatologist at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Seewiesen, Germany, observed two groups of wild western lowland gorillas in the Republic of the Congo.

Langergraber, who studies the evolution of cooperation and social relationships in wild chimpanzees, notes that there's compelling evidence in finches, crows, and gorillas that some behaviors — like learning to use tools or eat nettles that will sting unless they are handled just so — have genetic underpinnings.

Within that country's borders, in a park or residual wild area, are the last giant pandas or snow leopards, the last pockets of mountain gorillas or tigers, or the last migratory herd of a million wildebeests — something magnificent and acclaimed and sanctified.

Their next step was to analyze 1300 fecal samples of wild apes (some turned out to be from gorillas) and identify several places in which SIVcpz was widespread in chimp communities.

Eva Luef, a primatologist at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Seewiesen, Germany, made the discovery by watching groups of wild western lowland gorillas in the Republic of the Congo.

Food - related calls have been documented in many animals, including chimps and bonobos, but apart from anecdotal reports from zoos, there had been no evidence of it in wild gorillas.

Two new reports highlight the ability of gorillas to use tools in the wild.

Future studies, including data from larger sample sizes of wild - born and geographically well - defined individuals, and full Y - chromosome sequences from bonobos, gorillas and orangutans, promise to further our understanding of population histories, male - biased behaviours, mutation processes, and the functions of Y - chromosomal genes.

Both in the wild and captivity, the majority of male gorillas do not have families — and do not breed.

And one of those orphans, an albino gorilla named George, has a special bond with Davis, who rescued him in the wild.

Let's accept that he's preternaturally empathetic towards apes, capable of talking down a wild gorilla that's new to the wildlife sanctuary where he works.

It is soon revealed that unlike the exciting sequences of Tarzan where true peril was repeatedly threatened, Tarzan II's opening scene actually just depicts the wild child engaging in a bit of playtime fun with Terk (voiced by Brenda Grate), his savvy, sarcastic gorilla sidekick, and the red elephant Tantor (Harrison Fahn), who accordingly have reverted to juniority.

Tarzan now lives in civilized London as John Clayton (Alexander Skarsgard) with his wife Jane (Margot Robbie), after the two met in Africa while he was a wild child raised by gorillas and she was the daughter of an American teaching English.

She has also visited Rwanda, Uganda and Borneo where she fulfilled her childhood dream of trekking with mountain gorillas, chimpanzees and orangutans in the wild.

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.

Uganda is one of the last places in the world where you can see mountain gorillas in the wild, and this mascot of the Uganda Tourism Board is an ambassador for his real - life relatives in the forests.

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He calls for an end to captive breeding of gorillas and an eventual shift from zoos to sanctuaries, with money saved going to conservation of species in the wild.

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In Uganda, a troop of wild mountain gorillas visited a human camping ground, even grooming one man.

In the last decade, 161 gorillas have been named — bolstering their presence in the wild by 23 percent, all while raising awareness of their still - fragile existence.

About half the world population of wild mountain gorillas (about 350) live in the National Park, according to UNESCO (the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization).

While local populations may rely on the flesh of gorillas and other wild animals for subsistence, bushmeat also has been exploited for commercial purposes through illegal hunting.

By installing motion - sensing camera traps in the forests, the Wildlife Conservation Society managed to capture this haunting scene of the gorillas in the wild — and though a bit grainy, it might be the most candid peek behind the veil of mystery that still surrounds them.

Combined with the only other remaining wild population of mountain gorillas, in Bwindi park in Uganga, the total number of gorillas not in captivity today stands at 786.