Sentence examples for gorillas from inspiring English sources

But the USP has to be three nights' camping in the gorillas' backyard - the aptly named Bwindi Impenetrable Forest.

Uganda is home to roughly half the world's 700 or so mountain gorillas, and this new group tour for older families should see you locking eyes with at least one.

The number of mountain gorillas in Rwanda is now in a far healthier state, thanks to companies such as Rwanda Eco-Tours which has convinced local communities that these magnificent animals are worth more alive than dead.

Co-run by local Rwandan Edwin Sabuhoro, the company organises guided treks to see the gorillas in the heart of the Parc National des Volcans.

Dimorphism is huge among gorillas, where the males are two or three times larger than the females.

Falciparum was confined to apes for many millions of years and jumped, in Africa, from gorillas into humans some time in the past 300,000 years.

In Africa they represent a particular threat to precious forest fauna, including chimpanzees, bonobos and gorillas, by connecting forests to the fast-growing cities where bushmeat is prized.

Curious as to whether these changes were happening regularly, and keen to identify specifically how behaviour was changing, Mr Ross and a team of his colleagues decided to carry out an experiment.The researchers trained observers to monitor seven chimpanzees and seven gorillas in both the holding areas and the enclosures.

Instead they voted to allow such experiments only when they are intended to conserve the number of chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas and orang-utans, or when using these species becomes essential to tackling a disease that threatens people.

Some of his findings cast further doubt on the stereotypes.Mr Ross and his colleagues, who have just published their results in the American Journal of Primatology, asked 71 zoos around the United States about interactions between the local wildlife and any bonobos, chimpanzees, gorillas or orangutans in their collections.

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.This seemingly uncharacteristic aggression may be the result of captivity.