침팬지(Pan troglodytes)와 피그미침팬지(P. paniscus), 오랑우탄(P. pygmaeus), 그리고 고릴라(Gorilla gorilla)가 여기에 속한다.오랑우탄·고릴라·침팬지오랑우탄은 아시아 보르네오와 수마트라 지역의 숲속에 살고 있는 큰 유인원이다. 빙하기에는 지금 살고 있는 지역보다 더 널리 퍼져 있었으며, ...
and identify objects, colors and shapes accurately, as well as making up words to describe objects, the way Koko the gorilla does.When dinosaurs became birds that flew better than flying reptiles like pterosaurs, a great deal of weight was sacrificed in order to be true masters of the air. Since it wasn't possible for a flying creature to develop the brain size of a primate, the brain stayed ...
body hair came either first or concurrent with bipedalism. All other primates have body hair for babies to cling to. Gorilla babies, as helpless as ours at first, can cling to mother's hair at the age of three weeks. If a naked hominid tries walking on two feet (perhaps to see over the taller grass in the predator-rich savannah), the baby has to be carried by the mother. If a baby cries less ...
a 9.6 percent difference between chimpanzees and human beings, but a 13.1 percent difference between chimpanzees and gorillas.More and more, people are beginning to believe that chimpanzees and human beings are on one side of a great gulf, while the other apes (and, of course, other forms of life) are on the other side.But if chimpanzees share so many of their genes with us, why are they so ...
두 아종(亞種)이 있다. 학명은 전자가 Gorilla gorilla gorilla이고 후자는 Gorilla gorilla beringei인데 둘다 유인원과(科) 또는 성성이과(科)에 속한다.옛날부터 서부 아프리카 지방에선 인간과 닮은 거대한 괴물이 살고 있다는 이야기가 전해내려 왔다. 고릴라의 최초발견자는 약 2천5백년전 고대 카르타고 ...
animals that existed in the past were so much larger than any now living. The largest living primate is the lowland gorilla, which is as tall as a man and may weigh up to 400 pounds. A few million years ago, however, there lived a still larger species, Gigantopithecus ("giant ape"), that was up to nine feet tall and might have weighed close to 1,000 pounds. The largest land mammal now alive ...