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The Great Apes
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Dereck Joubert: " News emerged today that the man who pleaded guilty to killing ‘Rafiki’, a famous silverback gorilla well known and loved by tourists visiting Uganda’s Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park, has been sentenced to 11 years in prison. It is justice served for the loss of such an incredible creature, but it cannot bring Rafiki back. His killing underscores the growing dangers faced by wildlife all across the continent – and the need to support those who protect and defend vulnerable species and their habitats. In order to raise vital funds to keep anti-poaching personnel and wildlife rangers on the frontlines, we created #ProjectRanger. Your support means they can continue to provide protection where it’s needed the most. Follow the link in bio to find out more. "
Subhash Nair: " Man of the forest! - Orangutan photographed at Borneo, Indonesia "
Ronan Donovan: " Mother and son feeding high in canopy of a fig tree in Uganda’s Kibale National Park. The female here is known as Mususu was roughly 35 at the time of this photo and her nursing son, Moon was 3. This community of wild chimps has been studied for ~40 years with every individual’s life history recorded in detail. This These massive figs belong to a Ficus capensis tree species and can provide weeks of ripened fruits for chimps to feed on. "
11 months after Kala the 9-year-old Western lowlander (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) lost her first-born, she gave birth to another baby at Bristol Zoo, after an emergency caesarean: https://bristolzoo.org.uk/latest-zoo-new...oo-gardens, https://news.sky.com/story/baby-gorilla-...n-12054497, https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-bristol-53874594, https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/ho...84191.html, https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/...rilla.html
Credit: PA Media / Bristol Zoo
Subhash Nair: " Come in to my beautiful world! - Orangutan photographed at Borneo, Indonesia. "
David Yarrow: " In recognition of #WorldGorillaDay, we wanted to show you one of the first pictures from our latest series from Rwanda. This was taken in Volcanoes National Park where we worked alongside their government, the Milton Group and Singita Group. It was a big collective effort over the week.
Rest assured that COVID-19 regulation is very tight here - we all wore masks and were tested every second day. The Pilgrim Dian Fossey - the Californian zoologist who became the world’s leading authority on the mountain gorilla - left a formidable legacy when she was tragically murdered in 1985. Her resting place, high up in the rain forest, is visited regularly by those that want to pay homage to her life. Fossey’s famous book ‘Gorillas in the Mist’ chronicled her research and conservation work that helped to reduce the downward population trend in mountain gorillas, ultimately saving them from extinction. Her grave is a two and a half hour walk straight uphill from the little mountain village of Bisate on the edge of the National Park and over the years a well-trodden path has taken shape in what is otherwise a dense and fairly impenetrable rainforest. In all my times trekking through the forest in search of gorillas, I have never had the fortune to be able to use this path to access the gorillas - as quite simply it was too far from the location of any particular troop to be of use. But on this occasion during Covid 19 we were working tightly with the rangers - who advised us that the Umubano Group were near the Fossey trail. It certainly helped the trek to use the path, but far better than that, it transpired that a large Silverback from the Umubano Group - Bunyenyeri, 21 years old - was coming down the mountain on the same Fossey path and we met at 10,000 feet. It was as good an encounter in open space that I can remember and he just stood on a ridge on the path and stared down at me. It was a glimpse, a moment in time and thankfully one that I was able to record. Maybe he had gone to pay his homage to Dian Fossey, we will never know, but we decided to call this photograph The Pilgrim. " Unusual encounter...  *This image is copyright of its original author
Body size of the Gorilla:
Finally I finished my comparative image of the size of the two gorilla species with its own subspecies:  *This image is copyright of its original author In order to get all the information available I checked several books and webpages, but must of the information are just random figures and unreliable estimations. Also, I did not used information of captive specimens, altough there is one great study about gorillas in North American Zoos that I will like to include in the future, maybe. I checked that very few sources used real measurements and some of them are just a copy past from other papers, so when possible I used the original values. I apologies if I don't provide more details in this moment, but you can make your questions and with pleasure, and if I have the time, I will answere them to you next monday. Greetings to all.  (10-06-2020, 10:58 AM)GuateGojira Wrote: Body size of the Gorilla: Sorry Guate, but the image for the Eastern Lowland gorilla is actually a Western lowland gorilla. Here, in the video below, is a good video of a silverback Eastern lowland gorilla. Maybe you can get a still image by screenshotting it? https://youtu.be/yb796sRnkm0?t=43
Here are some images of the grauers gorilla or commonly known as the eastern lowland gorilla
(10-06-2020, 03:35 PM)johnny rex Wrote: Sorry Guate, but the image for the Eastern Lowland gorilla is actually a Western lowland gorilla. That is correct, I did not found a good side view of Eastern lowland gorillas and of Cross River gorillas. So I used captive images and I modify then slightly in color and form to reflect those specimens, like I have done with extinct tigers. Now, thank you for the video, I will make an screenshot and I will use it to replace the male, but until now I had not found a goood image from the Cross River specimens, so I will leave the one that I made, for the moment.
@Astroboy, thank you for the images too.
About this:  *This image is copyright of its original author The image is good, but the male is not facing to the camera, so I will se if I can get a better angle from the video that @"jonny rex" posted. Now, about this:  *This image is copyright of its original author The image is perfect, so I will use it for the comparative image, I think that the low resolution is not going to be a problem. (10-06-2020, 10:58 AM)GuateGojira Wrote: Body size of the Gorilla: Body size of the Gorilla, take 2: Ok, like I promised, here is the new comparative image of the body size of the gorilla species:  *This image is copyright of its original author As you can see I made several changes in the comparison, including the change on the image of the Eastern lowland gorilla and also I added a comparative image of the average standing height of all the populations. On the Cross River gorilla standing height, I put a question symbol because at this moment I could not found real standing measurements from this population, so while the image is scaled at 160 cm, we don't know the real height. Also, please take in count that I use a captive gorilla for the height image and the porpuse is just to show the height, so I don't use images from the species itselfs. Personally I think that the standing height figures of the Eastern lowland gorillas are to large, but as this is the information provided I will leave it like that. Hope you like it, save it for future references. If you have questions, please feel free to ask. Greetings to all. |
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