Scientists have long believed that human beings evolved from primates like gorillas.
'Chimps and bonobos spend a lot of time in the trees. And gorillas do not, ' Schmitt said.
These adaptations -- long legs and arches in our feet -- represent major differences between us and our distant primate relatives including gorillas, chimps and bonobos.
The western lowland gorillas, who share the same father, were rejected by their separate first-time mothers after they gave birth to them at the park near Canterbury, Kent.
Why do hummingbirds and gorillas both have backbones ?
More than 100 rangers have lost their lives trying to protect the gorillas of Virunga.
The zoologist had spent along time living with gorillas and had saved the life of a junior gorilla.
There was once a physical therapist who traveled all the way from America to Africa to do a census about mountain gorillas.
Only gorillas have retained their reputations intact.
Emily, 22, says Keena has got along well with other gorillas in her basketball suit.
For their research, published in the American Journal of Primatology, scientists studied chimpanzees, orangutans and gorillas from zoos in Japan and Indonesia.
The gorillas - caught up in the region's civil wars, preyed on by poachers, and crowded out of their homes by mining and logging industries - are already endangered across Africa.
We're the only species with language, we told ourselves-until gorillas and chimps mastered sign language.
Yet 30% of the zoos in the survey reported that their gorillas had killed some local wildlife, and in at least one case had eaten a bird.
Rich in wildlife, including forest elephants and gorillas.
The male took as many carrots as he could hold in hands and, as gorillas usually walk on four PAWS, he put as many carrots in his mouth as he could.
All four subspecies of gorillas are listed as endangered or critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
When scientists set out to trace the roots of human laughter, some chimps and gorillas were just tickled to help.
Animals with robust jaws, like gorillas and orang-utans, have long been known to be adapted to eating foods that require a lot of chewing.
But that view of gorillas may not be deserved.
Is Rollie an exception, or are all gorillas as clever?
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