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After the recent Gorilla vs Grizzly thread I think this is needed: Gorilla myth busting

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Toddler incident Dutch woman incident This shows an issue gorillas and many primates have, due to not being predators by nature, they don't actually know where to strike to kill something. Furthermore, we have two gorilla maulings on record. Both victims survived, the first one being a toddler.

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From Today's New York Times

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To the Editor: Re “An Ape Types in Iowa” (column, Aug. 9): Gail Collins writes: “Human-ape conversation was a very hot topic back in the late 1960s, when researchers first taught a chimpanzee named Washoe to use sign language. The Great Ape Trust is the only place in America where this kind of research still goes on.”

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What happened with Archaeopteryx?

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For instance, in primate phylogeny, postcranial traits (bony traits of the body, not the head) are usually useless because we can’t link teeth to bodies in most cases, and the teeth drive the taxonomy (though there are some recent exceptions ). Cats have eight on each side on top, and seven on the bottom.

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