Reddit Animals

MARCH 28, 2024

You might not be aware of all the differences between gorillas and chimpanzees. When comparing these two primate species , there are a lot of differences as well as preferences, but what might they be? You’ve come to the right place if you’ve ever wondered what makes a chimpanzee or a gorilla tick.

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Reddit Animals

MARCH 30, 2024

The Physical Characteristics of Mountain Gorilla Mountain gorillas have dark brown eyes with a black ring around the iris, same like other gorilla species. The crest serves as a support for the gorilla’s extraordinarily strong jaw muscles. The average lifespan of a mountain gorilla is 35 to 40 years.

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Reddit Animals

MAY 21, 2023

Claim 1: A gorilla can definitely kill any animal below 400 lbs easily and still put up a good fight for those above that weight class The truth: Forest leopards in Africa are known to kill gorillas, and while rare, the current record is skewed heavily in favor of the leopard coming out the better in these encounters.

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Critter News

MAY 15, 2009

Around 12 million animals are used each year in the European Union (EU) for research purposes. This became clear from a report addressed at the European Parliament (EP) session on May 5–7, which seeks to vote on a directive concerning animal research. I really hope this passes.

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4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Each animal they raise to adulthood is a step away from extinction, with the ultimate challenge to return them to the wild. And on the banks of the Amazon in Brazil, a tamarin expert works to save the tiny primates, which are struggling to survive as bulldozers wipe out their forest homes to make way for new development.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 7, 2016

In light of this horrible incident, is it right for the zoo to carry on a breeding program that subjects more animals to such unnatural lives? The zoo, surely, carries responsibility for deficiencies in its enclosure. Finally, what of the audience? Many sanctuaries do not permit breeding.

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Critter News

JUNE 4, 2009

Here are the results of the EU flirtation with restricting research on primates. Researchers can continue most experiments on mankind's closest relatives -- chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans -- after European Union lawmakers watered down proposals to restrict testing. Nothing, nothing makes me angrier than animal researchers.

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