Western Gorilla

International award-winner Carlos Espinal returns to the New York stages with his solo Peter El Rojo, The Gorilla. The play is a stage adaptation of the Franz Kafta’s story about an ape who learns to behave like a human and becomes an immigrant among them. After rave reviews and awards for its performances in New Jersey and the Dominican Republic, the New York premiere will take place at IATI Theater (East Village, NY), avant-garde Latin Company that for 48 years maintains a solid reputation…

Researchers believe they formed a single population as recently as one hundred thousand years ago. Causes of speciation of the Common Chimp included habituation, strong directional selection, and genetic drift. Moreover, genetic differences between Western and Central Chimps are so great; they are stronger than those between any two human populations. Chimpanzees dwell in the…

towards his fellow gorillas. Kerchak, “is aggressive and dominates the other beta makes, usually through force and intimidation” (Barber). His stature and status makes him fearful to the other gorillas which can be good because it shows that he is the alpha, however, it makes him very isolated. Turk, one of Tarzan’s gorilla friends, knows not to mess with Kerchak. Turk told Tarzan that, “if you want Kerchak to like you, stay away from him” (Tarzan). This goes to show that the gorillas are…

People once thought gorillas were violent, chimpanzees ate only plants, and orangutans were impossible to study. Three women showed otherwise. Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and BirutŽ Galdikas completely changed the entire study of apes. Their work also gave humans new ways to understand their own behavior. Jane Goodall is known for her work with chimpanzees. She went into the jungle after deciding it made most sense to study her subjects where they lived. For more than 50 years, she has made…

this was the most worshiped creature of the rain forest. In most stories you would hear of the mother that took care of the children, the mother who saved the kinds who risked her life but this was not an ordinary story. This was a story of a male gorilla that went too far to save the young from. Deep in the jungle there were many animals, there were ones of many shapes sizes and colors to. There were ones that hunted for meat ones that hunted for leaves, and ones that hunted in groups. The…

My interest in gorillas started when I took my first trip to the zoo. I remember staring at the gorilla and how large and intimidating it looked. When I got home, I was still so fascinated with gorillas and decided to do more research. Their physique and intimidating look always captured my attention. I took more trips to the zoo just to have an encounter with a living gorilla. As I grew up, my interest in gorillas expanded and I would associate myself with anything gorilla-related. The more…

interspecific comparisons have been made. Molecular studies indicate that humans, chimpanzees and bonobos are very closely related in a lineage that split into hominid and Pan lines approximately 6–7million years ago, possibly following a divergence from the gorilla lineage about 1–of 2 million years earlier. Chimpanzees have been characterized in terms of their intercommunity…

A Book Review of A Primate’s Memoir "I joined the baboon troop during my twenty-first year. I had never planned to become a savanna baboon when I grew up; instead, I had always assumed I would become a mountain gorilla". A Primate’s Memoir is an autobiography of a scientist named Robert M. Sapolsky, and the book takes place on a reserve in Kenya. Robert Sapolsky is a brilliant author, American scientist, and he’s practically a member of a baboon tribe. The book is structured around…

the Cincinnati zoo a little boy with the age of three fell into the enclosure of the 17-year-old gorilla. Some argue that the Grillo was trying to save the child, while other argue that the gorilla was actually harming him. The gorilla, named Harambe, had to grabbed the child and dragged him across the moat. Many filmed as this was happening. In the exhibit the gorilla was an endangered lowland gorilla. There are many arguments as to what happened but the hulking ape was shot down regardless in…

Abdulla Haider- Arianna Javier- Juan Esparza Professor Mejia Anthropology 101 5-18-18 Old World Monkeys Old world monkeys, which vary in species, can be found in many locations throughout the African and Asian Continents. They can be found in most of Africa, central to southern Asia, India and Japan. They belong to family Cercopithecidae, which share a few characteristics with New World Monkey, unlike their location. There are two main subfamilies of Old World Monkeys. The first,…