Gorilla

Gentle giant - London Zoo's gorilla Bobby dies

BBC News (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago

Bobby the Gorilla, a major attraction at London Zoo has died, it is announced.

Gorilla states in poaching pledge

BBC News (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

With gorilla numbers declining, countries that are home to the animals vow to enforce laws on poaching.

Bobby the gorilla dies in London Zoo

The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago

Bobby the gorilla who moved to London Zoo from Bristol in 2003 has died.

Giveaway: Gorilla Man at the Creekside Lounge

Austinist (Free subscription) | yesterday

the vestige group Gorilla Man Through 12/20, Th-Sa @ 7:30pm Creekside Lounge ( 606 E 7th St ) $15-$25, Thur PWYW, street parking only [ info ] | [ tickets ] A lot of teenagers feel insecure about their appearance. Gangly arms and legs protrude out from morphing torsos. Voices have an octave-will of their own. And then there's the hair. Hair where? Hair where there was never, ever hair. But...

[ALOCHONA] Watch out Bangladesh: Sleeping Next to a Thousand Pound Gorilla

Daily Online Alochona (Free subscription) | yesterday

Watch out Bangladesh : Sleeping Next to a Thousand Pound Gorilla Dr Abid Bahar While talking about sleeping next to a Thousand Pound Gorilla, I am not referring to India that surrounds Bangladesh from its three sides. Here I am talking about Burma . Burma is five times bigger than Bangladesh . It has an army of 400,000 strong; in comparison Bangladesh has only 125,000 strong army. It...

London Zoo gorilla Bobby dies

Metro.co.uk (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago

London Zoo's 'much-loved' gorilla Bobby has died, it was announced today.

• London Zoo mourns sudden death of its poster boy gorilla Bobby - Daily Mail online | Home

ZSL London Zoo mourns the loss of male gorilla

Zoological Society of London (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

ZSL London Zoo is devastated to announce the passing of its much-loved male gorilla, Bobby.

U.N. declares 2009 Year of the Gorilla

Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008

ROME , Dec. 3 (UPI) -- Famed conservationist Jane Goodall is calling for an international effort to save gorillas in Africa. It is time for us to pool all of our resources toward saving these magnificent creatures, she said Monday at the launch of the United Nations Year of the Gorilla 2009. U.N. environment officials said the effort will focus on the use of low-volume wood-burning stoves...

Fundraising Project To Help Mountain Gorillas Launched

Monkeys In The News (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008

The project S.O.S Gorilla has been created to raise funds to help the gorilla preservation. Thanks to the support of the Barcelona Zoo and Eaza (European Association of Zoos And Aquaria), we’ ve found an association who will make sure the funds will help the endangered ape, Berggorilla & Regenwald Direkthilfe. Since 1984, the Berggorilla & Regenwald Direkthilfe has been...

Rare gorilla twins born in Uganda

Physorg (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008

Rare mountain gorilla twins have been born in Uganda's Bwindi Forest, home to around half the world's population of the endangered primates, a wildlife official said Wednesday.

U.N. Declares 2009 Year Of The Gorilla

Science - The Post Chronicle (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008

Famed conservationist Jane Goodall is calling for an international effort to save gorillas in Africa....

Shake Hands with that Gorilla

the evolving mind (Free subscription) | yesterday

In research that could have implications for our understanding the evolution of human language . . . Psychologist Dr Gillian Sebestyen Forrester developed a new method of analysing the behaviour of gorillas in captivity and found there was a right-handed bias for actions that also involved head and mouth movements. Although the “other primates” do not use [...]

U.N. declares 2009 Year of the Gorilla

Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008

Famed conservationist Jane Goodall is calling for an international effort to save gorillas in Africa. It is time for us to pool all of our resources toward saving these magnificent creatures, she said Monday at the launch of the United Nations Year of the Gorilla 2009. U.N.

Robot Gorilla at the Science Fiction Museum

ROBOTS DREAMS (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008

Robot Gorilla at Science Fiction Museum Originally uploaded by zoomar.Posted by Zoomar on Flickr.

Long Live The Gorilla

Reject the U.N. (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008

UN launches "Year of the Gorilla" to raise funds, awareness for endangered primates The "Year of the Gorilla" began Monday — a U.N. effort to raise money for primates threatened with extinction from disease, hunting and deforestation. Officials for the U.N.-backed Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals said they hoped to raise half a million euros ($630,000)...

• UN officials launch "Year of the Gorilla" - Seattle Times
• UN officials launch 'Year of the Gorilla' - Arizona Republic
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