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Post by King Kodiak on Jun 28, 2020 17:53:10 GMT -5
THIS HERE SHOWS THAT IF YOU TRY TO CAPTURE A GORILLA, THE WHOLE GROUP WILL TRY TO PREVENT IT AT ALL COSTS. FINALLY A BABY WAS CAPTURED.
OFFICIALS VISITING RWANDA FROM COLOGNE, GERMANY, HAD REQUESTED A MOUNTAIN GORILLA FOR THE COLOGNE ZOO. THE CONSERVATOR ADMITTED TO HAVING ASKED THE LEADING POACHER OF THE PARK TO ORGANIZE A GROUP OF POACHERS TO MAKE THE CAPTURE. LATER I LEARNED THAT TEN MEMBERS OF THE GORILLA GROUP WERE KILLED IN THE CAPTURE.
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Post by brobear on Jun 29, 2020 17:56:01 GMT -5
I was always a bigger fan of Mighty Joe Young than of King Kong. I did not like the Disney version. But I preferred man-sized ( real-to-life sized ) gorillas.
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Post by OldGreenGrolar on Jun 29, 2020 19:26:16 GMT -5
Reply 272. Never hire poachers to do your work. It’s cost ten gorillas their lives 😡. It shows that gorillas have strong family bonds.
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Post by King Kodiak on Jun 30, 2020 8:29:15 GMT -5
Reply 272. Never hire poachers to do your work. It’s cost ten gorillas their lives 😡. It shows that gorillas have strong family bonds. |
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Post by King Kodiak on Jul 1, 2020 10:21:09 GMT -5
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Post by OldGreenGrolar on Jul 1, 2020 18:43:51 GMT -5
These gorillas can tell friend from foe and are more grateful than some humans in the world.
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Post by brobear on Jul 13, 2020 5:29:09 GMT -5
A sub-adult "black-back gorilla:
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Post by brobear on Jul 13, 2020 5:39:55 GMT -5
The crocodile hunter meets the gorillas:
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Post by brobear on Jul 16, 2020 1:09:19 GMT -5
Reply #374 is from what books. I looked up "A Home in the Highlands" and got nothing. I'm thinking that is simply the name of the chapter.
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Post by King Kodiak on Jul 16, 2020 1:30:53 GMT -5
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Post by brobear on Jul 16, 2020 1:53:10 GMT -5
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Schaller George Beals Schaller (born 1933) is a German-born American mammalogist, biologist, conservationist and author. Schaller is recognized by many as the world's preeminent field biologist, studying wildlife throughout Africa, Asia and South America. Born in Berlin, Schaller grew up in Germany, but moved to Missouri as a teen. He is vice president of Panthera Corporation and serves as chairman of their Cat Advisory Council. Schaller is also a senior conservationist at the Bronx Zoo-based Wildlife Conservation Society. In 1959, when Schaller was only 26, he traveled to Central Africa to study and live with the mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei) of the Virunga Volcanoes.Little was known about the life of gorillas in the wild until the publication of The Mountain Gorilla: Ecology and Behavior in 1963, that first conveyed to the general public just how profoundly intelligent and gentle gorillas really are, contrary to then-common beliefs. Schaller also, in 1964, recounted this epic two-year study in The Year of the Gorilla, which also provides a broader historical perspective on the efforts to save one of humankind's nearest relatives from the brink of extinction. The American zoologist Dian Fossey, with assistance from the National Geographic society and Louis Leakey, followed Schaller's ground-breaking field research on mountain gorillas in the Virungas. Schaller and Fossey were instrumental in dispelling the public perception of gorillas as brutes, by demonstrably establishing the deep compassion and social intelligence evident among gorillas, and how very closely their behavior parallels that of humans. No one who looks into a gorilla's eyes – intelligent, gentle, vulnerable – can remain unchanged, for the gap between ape and human vanishes; we know that the gorilla still lives within us. Do gorillas also recognize this ancient connection?
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Post by brobear on Jul 16, 2020 1:55:35 GMT -5
www.amazon.com/Year-Gorilla-George-B-Schaller/dp/0226736474 This seminal work chronicles George B. Schaller’s two years of travel and observation of gorillas in East and Central Africa in the late 1950s, high in the Virunga volcanoes on the Zaire-Rwanda-Uganda border. There, he learned that these majestic animals, far from being the aggressive apes of film and fiction, form close-knit societies of caring mothers and protective fathers watching over playful young. Alongside his observations of gorilla society, Schaller celebrates the enforced yet splendid solitude of the naturalist, recounts the adventures he experienced along the way, and offers a warning against poaching and other human threats against these endangered creatures. This edition features a postscript detailing Schaller’s more recent visits with gorillas, current to 2009. “Whether the author is tracking gorillas, slipping past elephant herds on narrow jungle paths, avoiding poachers’ deadfalls, or routing Watusi invaders, this is an exciting book. Although Schaller feels that this is ‘not an adventure book,’ few readers will be able to agree.”—Irven DeVore, Science 
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Post by King Kodiak on Jul 16, 2020 2:01:03 GMT -5
Here, from the same author, George Schaller:
GEORGE SCHALLER, A LEADING EXPERT ON WILD GORILLAS, SAYS THAT A LARGE MALE GORILLA HAS "THE STRENGTH OF SEVERAL MEN"
FULL GROWN GORILLAS HAVE NO ENEMIES EXCEPT FOR HUMAN HUNTERS. AN ADULT GORILLA ATTACKED A LEOPARD THAT HAD BEEN THREATENING YOUNG GORILLAS. THE TWO ANIMALS BATTLED HAND-TO-CLAW AT NIGHT, AND IN THE MORNING THE LEOPARD WAS FOUND DEAD.
archive.org/details/animalsuperstars00free/page/48/mode/2up
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Post by King Kodiak on Jul 25, 2020 17:18:53 GMT -5
DIAN FOSSEY'S FAVORITE GORILLA CALLED "DIGIT"
Digit, long vital to his group as a sentry, was killed in this service by poachers on December 31, 1977. That day Digit took five mortal spear wounds into his body, held off six poachers and their dogs in order to allow his family members, including his mate Simba and their unborn infant, to flee to the safety of Visoke's slopes. Digit's last battle had been a lonely and courageous one. During his valiant struggle he managed to kill one of the poacher's dogs before dying. LAST PICTURE OF DIGIT IN DECEMBER 1977. HE WAS ON SENTRY DUTY:
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Post by King Kodiak on Jul 28, 2020 10:55:20 GMT -5
THAT GORILLAS WILL DIE DEFENDING THEIR FAMILY MEMBERS IS, TO MANY MEDIA HOUNDS, NOT AS NEWSWORTHY AS THE INACCURATE STORY OF GORY MUTILATIONS FOR TROPHY PURPOSES.
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Post by King Kodiak on Aug 7, 2020 9:39:48 GMT -5
I just finished reading Gorillas in the mist, but that book looks damn good.
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Post by brobear on Aug 7, 2020 10:13:40 GMT -5
I just finished reading Gorillas in the mist, but that book looks damn good. I can't afford to be buying books right now. I was also thinking, with a book like this, besides probably some great information, you might even find someone to question about gorilla strength, etc. ( possibly ) |
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Post by King Kodiak on Aug 7, 2020 12:08:13 GMT -5
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Post by brobear on Jan 24, 2021 1:56:38 GMT -5
Humans have both good and bad relations with their closest relatives.  
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Post by brobear on May 3, 2021 8:40:12 GMT -5
Some of the people that help track the Gorillas. The Pygmies are characterized by their small size, less than 1,50 m. Respected, they share a traditional lifestyle based on hunting and harvesting forest products, and a common culture that places great emphasis on music and dance. Many groups are now being sedentarized. This is the case at #NationalKahuziBiega Park. Outstanding trackers, they have a very important material knowledge of the forest. So many of them are used by PNKB to track gorillas. www.gorilla.fr/?fbclid=IwAR3lLJf4birCQpJNwBxEk4DpCw2LbgA7OE8G54XHEkf9Mq0ZNIvnUWSzStY  |
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