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The Gorilla chief of security, General Urko, served as the primary antagonist of the live-action television series Planet of the Apes while another version of the character was the primary antagonist of the animated series Return to the Planet of the Apes. Numerous other Gorilla characters also served as one-off antagonists in both series.
Dian Fossey (/ d aɪ ˈ æ n / dy-AN; January 16, 1932 – c. December 26, 1985) was an American primatologist and conservationist known for undertaking an extensive study of mountain gorilla groups from 1966 until her murder in 1985. [1]
Koko was born on July 4, 1971, at the San Francisco Zoo to her mother Jacqueline and father Bwana. (The name "Hanabiko" (花火子), lit. ' fireworks child ', is of Japanese origin and is a reference to her date of birth, the Fourth of July.)
The famous gorilla Koko, who knew over 1,000 American Sign Language signs and 2,000 spoken English words, demonstrated that she understood slapstick comedy. One time, ...
Gust (1952–1988) was a Congolese gorilla that became an icon of the Antwerp Zoo; Guy the Gorilla (1946–1978) was a famous gorilla in London Zoo. Harambe (1999–2016) was a gorilla shot dead by the Cincinnati Zoo after a child fell into his enclosure. [9] This would eventually lead to the deceased ape becoming a popular Internet meme.
On Thursday, The Gorilla Foundation revealed that Koko, one of the few primates able to communicate using sign language, had passed away in her sleep. Koko the Gorilla, famous for learning sign ...
Gorillas in the Mist is a memoir by American primatologist and conservationist Dian Fossey, published in 1983. [1] The book begins with Fossey's early career as she began working with naturalist Louis Leakey and spans thirteen years of Fossey's research into the behavior and biology of mountain gorillas in Rwanda.
He became famous, though, with the name given to him by Sabater when National Geographic featured him on the cover in March 1967, with the English name Snowflake. This name spread among the press (Stern, Life, Paris-Match). Sabater himself called the gorilla Copi or Floquet, and in the later years Nfumu.