Gorillas use their smarts to help research on their hearts
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Gino the gorilla knows the drill. He reaches way up with his left hand and puts his right hand out to the side. When his keeper asks, he pushes his right leg out and presses his left thigh and chest against the crisscrossed bars of his enclosure. He knows that striking this unusual pose — it looks like an upright round of Twister — earns him a treat. He doesn’t know that the ultrasound machine rolled up to the bars will collect information that could help gorillas beyond his Disney’s Animal Kingdom home. The animal-programs team at Walt Disney World...
Published on Thursday 9th of September 2010 10:10:14 AM
Inflatable gorilla causes fire at strip center
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HOUSTON (KTRK) -- A fire on Houston's south side is being blamed on an unusual suspect. Firefighters say an inflatable gorilla is to blame. The flames sparked around 2am off Cullen near the South Beltway. Firefighters found a small fire. After they put it out, they spotted the problem.
Published on Thursday 9th of September 2010 10:10:14 AM
'Gorilla incident' at hospital has some trustees citing racism
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A hospital employee dressed in a gorilla costume and passing out bananas to the sounds of “Hail to the Chief” may have been an effort to recognize employees for a job well done, but some Regional Medical Center trustees are calling the incident offensive and racist. Trustees Betty Henderson and Dr. Oscar Butler Jr. called for greater sensitivity and diversity training opportunities on the part of hospital staff and employees to ensure a similar incident does not reoccur. “I know in the beginning in six days God created the earth and on the seventh day he made man,” Henderson said....
Published on Thursday 9th of September 2010 10:10:14 AM
Zell: Use Gorilla Glue on Obama’s chair
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"Decrying a federal government he says is out of control, former Georgia Gov. and U.S. Sen. Zell Miller said Thursday that America is “spending like we’re Paris Hilton.” But the comparison to the blonde socialite might not be the worst offense in Miller’s litany of all that’s wrong with the country. Speaking to more than 1,000 conservative - overwhelmingly Republican - lawmakers from around the country, Miller said, “Today, we’re spending like we’re Paris Hilton, regulating like we’re Ralph Nader, nationalizing like we’re Hugo Chavez, printing money like we’re the Weimar Republic and taxing like we’re, well, the Democratic Congress.”
Published on Thursday 9th of September 2010 10:10:14 AM
Tourist Snaps Picture of Gorilla Wielding Knife at Calgary Zoo (video)
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"You see that it's a knife, but you think it's not possible there's a knife inside."
Published on Thursday 9th of September 2010 10:10:14 AM
South Carolina pol: Sorry for comparing Michelle Obama to gorilla
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COLUMBIA, S.C. - A former chairman of the South Carolina Election Commission has apologized after his posting on Facebook suggested a gorilla that escaped form a Columbia zoo was an ancestor of first lady Michelle Obama. Minutes after the gorilla’s escape was reported Friday, Rusty DePass posted: "I’m sure it’s just one of Michelle’s ancestors — probably harmless." The comment has since been deleted, but DePass confirmed to WIS-TV that he made it, apologizing and saying it was a joke about statements Obama has made about evolution. DePass is a former chairman of the Richland County Republican Party. He didn’t...
Published on Thursday 9th of September 2010 10:10:14 AM
Art as Propaganda for Evolution
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Art as Propaganda for Evolution April 10, 2009 — Should a scientific theory be propagated by appeal to scientific evidence, or by appeal to emotions through visualization? Nature this week contained two articles that shamelessly praised art as propaganda for evolution. Surprisingly, one of them mentioned Charles Darwin as someone “at the cutting edge of visualization.” Endless Forms: Carl Zimmer reviewed an exhibit currently at the Yale Center for British Art, Endless Forms: Charles Darwin, Natural Science and the Visual Arts.1 The title is taken from the last sentence in the Origin where Darwin said that endless forms most beautiful...
Published on Thursday 9th of September 2010 10:10:14 AM
Mickey Rourke favors interspecies sex over Courtney Love
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Mickey Rourke was besieged by paparazzi last night, one of whom asked him “is it true you’re going out with Courtney Love?”... Rourke said “I’d rather be on a deserted island with a gorilla.”...
Published on Thursday 9th of September 2010 10:10:14 AM
Wildlife Conservation Society Discovers "Planet of the Apes" [ 125K gorillas found ]
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The new census tallied more than 125,000 western gorillas in two adjacent areas in the northern part of the country, covering an area of 18,000 square miles (47,000 square kilometers). Previous estimates from the 1980s placed the entire population of western lowland gorillas, which occur in seven Central African nations, at fewer than 100,000. Since then, however, scientists had believed that this number had dwindled by at least half, due to hunting and disease... The new census was the result of intensive fieldwork carried out by the Bronx Zoo-based WCS and the Government of Republic of Congo. The researchers combed...
Published on Thursday 9th of September 2010 10:10:14 AM
HOSP GOES APE OVER TINY TOT: (German) DOCS HEAL GORILLA IN THEIR MIDST
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Beaten by her father, neglected by her mother, 6-week-old gorilla Mary Zwo seemed destined for tragedy - until kindhearted doctors who normally treat human patients fell for the tiny beauty of a beast. The ailing ape began receiving emergency treatment for dehydration and hypothermia over the weekend after her plight was discovered, German hospital officials said. She was whisked to the pediatric ward of the Muenster University Clinic in Stuttgart after zookeepers found her semiconscious and near death in the arms of her mother. And to the relief of her handlers, Mary Zwo, or Mary Two in English, was finally...
Published on Thursday 9th of September 2010 10:10:14 AM
Virile Gorilla Leads to Baby Boom at Zoo
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AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - For some zookeepers in Amsterdam, Akili turned out to be the gorilla their dreams. The Artis Zoo tried to mate their female gorillas with two other males, but wasn't having much luck in producing offspring. So they turned to Akili, a gorilla from a German safari park. The result was the first birth at the zoo in 10 years. Akili arrived in September 2005 and quickly impregnated Binti, who gave birth Tuesday, as well as two other females, Dafina and Shindy. "We tried earlier with two other males but both of them couldn't do it, couldn't perform,"...
Published on Thursday 9th of September 2010 10:10:14 AM
God and gorillas (or evo uncovered as quasi anti science)
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God; doesn't it explain why religion continues to be so pervasive? But many scientists are coming up with their own, decidedly secular, theories about the origins of faith. In fact, over the last few years, a small cottage industry made up of scientists and philosophers has devoted itself to demystifying the divine.
Published on Thursday 9th of September 2010 10:10:14 AM
This Day In History
Mary, Queen of Scots: was crowned at the age of nine months (1543)
Quote of the Day "The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history."
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