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🦍🌿 In 1978, #DavidAttenborough and his team traveled to #Rwanda to film mountain #gorillas for the #BBC series Life on Earth.

He used belch vocalizations to acknowledge the #gorilla family and noted that gorillas are not aggressive #animals. Attenborough spent 7 decades sharing the natural world with audiences and turns 100 on Friday, May 8.

👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/david-attenborough-gorilla-family-encounter-rwanda-video

#20thcentury #apes #babies #conservation #family #forest #interview #mountains #nature #history #science #wildlife #ecology #primates #mammals #tksst #video

https://www.europesays.com/videos/18830/ Watch Princess Anne open the new gorilla house at Jersey Zoo | ITV News Channel #AdamPeaty #alderney #ChannelIslands #Complete #Gorilla #guernsey #herm #itv #ItvNews #ItvNewsChannel #ITVNewsInFull #jersey #JerseyZoo #olympic #PrincessAnne #royals #sark #swimming

The future of Bua Noi, the western lowland gorilla who has spent almost four decades confined alone on the top floors of a Bangkok Department Store, is uncertain. 🦍💔 https://veganfta.com/blog/2026/04/22/gorilla-bua-nois-future-in-bangkok-mall-zoo-still-uncertain/ #gorilla #zoo #zoos

The future of Bua Noi, the western lowland gorilla who has spent almost four decades confined alone on the top floors of a Bangkok Department Store, is uncertain. 🦍💔 https://veganfta.com/blog/2026/04/22/gorilla-bua-nois-future-in-bangkok-mall-zoo-still-uncertain/ #gorilla #zoo #zoos

10 Interesting Things I Found on the Internet 179

Let me carry your voice: famous actors read testimonies of Palestinians enduring Israeli torture

The “Let Me Carry Your Voice” is a series of testimonies of the torture endured by Palestinians across the occupied Palestinian territory as a result of Israel’s genocide, decades-long occupation, and apartheid. In this edition, Annie Lennox, Javier Bardem, Guy Pearce and Laura Morante read the real stories of Palestinians.

Injustice is not abstract. It is engraved in people’s skin, bones, minds. It tears through everyday life, exposing the depths of human cruelty.

Justice is not abstract either. It begins with each of us. It demands courage, sacrifice, discomfort, change. It requires us to speak up, to demand accountability. To ensure that no story is pushed into the darkness. They want to silence Palestine. We will not let them.

https://youtu.be/XuDA-l2cQ6k?si=UG9lb6lMdo98PvKC

Green Summer Ride in Nagano, Japan

https://youtu.be/vFH2lGROUI8?si=S2kuHWABOqmIh3QO

Thaithong’s fairy lantern, a type of plant native to southeast Asia. Photo Chatree Lertsintanakorn

Jim Carey’s speech to university graduates about choosing a great path through life

https://youtu.be/RrOGQD4Z9A4?si=O2k0qrMd0n1OgBtp

Crispy Chinese Eggplant by Nagi

This is the end-game for sticky hot fried finger food people…the END GAME!

https://youtu.be/Hq3fRxXi8JY?si=UlG_CDMzF-PUmFk6

Jamie MacDougall Art and Music

This drawing really captures a beautiful and joyful moment between two species!

20 Japanese Words for Rain by Miya Ando

Turning picture and prose into a poignant meditation on nature’s impermanence.

Via MIT Press Reader

In Western culture, there has always been a tendency to seek stability and permanence. Plato envisioned eternal truths in his theory of forms; Newton described a physical world governed by immutable laws; America’s Founding Fathers drafted a Constitution designed to endure the ages. Beneath all of this lies a discomfort with the notion that nothing lasts forever.

Miya 美夜 Ando has spent the past two decades confronting that impermanence in her artistic practice. Guided by the Japanese aphorism mono no aware — a recognition of reality’s fundamental transience — the Japanese and American visual artist often focuses on fleeting natural phenomena, such as clouds, lunar phases, and shooting stars.

This focus animates her latest work, “Water of the Sky.” The book is a stunning bilingual compendium of 2,000 Japanese words for rain along with their English interpretations, all of which capture “the breadth and diversity of rain’s many expressions,” Ando writes: “When it falls, how it falls, and how its observer might be transformed physically or emotionally by its presence.” Accompanying the text are 100 of her indigo drawings — rendered in pencil and micronized pure silver — each offering a visual display of rain’s varied forms.

Below, you’ll find five drawings and 20 words from Ando’s visual dictionary. The text ranges from “prosaic to esoteric, extending from the meteorological to the mystical and from the minute to the vast,” she writes. “My visual interpretations of these terms are not so much illustrations as evocations, attempts to embody or imagine that particular rain’s precise and essential quality.”

— The Editors

Taikan Jiu: Mercy-from-drought rain

Kabashira Tateba, Ame: See a swarm of mosquitoes, signal of rain

Uki: Praying for rain

Onibi: Will-o’-the-wisp seen on rainy nights

Tokidoki Niwaka Ame: Sometimes light snow and rain showers

Tokidoki Niwaka Yuki: Sometimes snow or sometimes light snow or rain

Giu: False rain

Ama ga Nukeru: The skies open up, it rains like cats and dogs

Shinotsukuame: Intense rain that falls heavily, is very fine and strong like the Bamboo Grove at Shinotake

Uryū Ensa: Describes the appearance of a fisherman working in the rain

Hitome: One rain

Sau: Rain that falls on the river shoal

Amadoi: Sliding red beans to resemble the sound of rain

Nakidashisōna Soramoyō: The sky appears as though it is about to start crying

Kōu: Rain that comes exactly when you were waiting for it

Amagaeru Fukō: A boy who was punished and turned into a frog that cries before it rains for his misdeeds against his father

Sanbaine: A sudden evening storm that occurs so quickly, one has no time to make even three bundles of rice

Zubunure: Soaked by rain all the way through one’s clothing

Amaguri Higaki: In years of rain, chestnuts produce well; in years of sunshine, persimmons produce well

Kitsune no Yomeiri: The day that foxes have their wedding ceremony

Autistic communication bingo

I can relate to a fair few of these and a lot of the people who I associate with have these traits also. Found via BlueSky

Seagrass comes alive in the ebb and flow of the ocean

A mystical dance of amazement

https://www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFuckingLit/comments/1offrgj/the_seagrass_comes_alive_with_the_ebb_and_flow_of/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

My perfect dream home

This gilded Middle Eastern salon adorned with intricate frescoes to romantic floral patterns and warm colours is my perfect dream home.

Djuma Soundsystem – Les Djinns (Trentemøller Remix)

I don’t know Djuma Soundsystem I am so glad that now I do. The combination of dark electro and middle eastern influence is a match made in heaven. Trentemøller has an amazing and extensive back catalogue of dark electro and techno to explore and enjoy as well.

https://youtu.be/SHfqI7PntCc?si=m3KUg0uKmOD0VZQR

The enchanting Ottoman maps of ancient cities by Matrakçı Nasuh

The Bosnian-born polymath Matrakçı Nasuh earned his nickname from an unlikely source, inventing a military lawn game involving cudgels called “matrak”. But this 16th-century scholar’s legacy lays mainly in his exquisite miniature paintings documenting the Ottoman Empire’s landscapes and cities.

His most significant work, Fetihname-i Karabuğdan, chronicles Suleiman the Magnificent’s 1532–1555 Safavid campaign. The manuscript traces the Ottoman army’s route from Istanbul through Baghdad and Tabriz, then back through Halab and Eskisehir. Each city appears rendered with meticulous and charming detail.

Matrakçı’s precision and artful execution became so influential that it spawned a new genre of art! the “Matrakçı style.” via Public Domain Review

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Baby-Gorilla
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Zoo Berlin: Gorilla Fatou feiert 69. Geburtstag | News

TTS-Player überspringen↵Artikel weiterlesen Berlin – Weltrekord im Berliner Zoo: Gorilla-Dame Fatou feiert ihren 69. Geburtstag – älter ist…
#Berlin #Deutschland #Deutsch #DE #Schlagzeilen #Headlines #Nachrichten #News #Europe #Europa #EU #Berlinregional #Berlinregionalnews #Content-Pipeline #Desk-Delta #Germany #Gorilla #Menschenaffe #Naturschutz #TeamFirst #texttospeech #Tierpfleger #Zoo #ZooBerlin
https://www.europesays.com/de/942583/

Het ideale VTWonen huis bestaan ni....

#Fundafun #Funda #VTWonen #Grijs #sfeerloos #goedemorgen #parel #munstergeleen #luchtplaats #tuin #Tegels #zeeppompje #gorilla #antraciet #stalendeur #kleedje #nijntje #dekinderkamerszijnleuker

https://www.funda.nl/detail/koop/munstergeleen/huis-rosastraat-7/89766446/

Painting on paper, 20 x 20 cm: Ambiguous impulses for your mental cinema!
#kunst #analogueArt #painting #mentalCinema #contemporaryArt #rubberStamp #reliefPrinting #inkjetPrint #mixedMedia #acrylicColours #climateActionNow #saveBioDiversity #systemChange #endFossilFuels #makeArtNotWar #NoRacism #noAFD #NoFascism #boatpeople #mediterraniansea #euborder #frontex #refugees #rowboat #gorilla #littleBoy #bodyGuard #barbedWire #fence #border #territory #frontier #heart

Painting on paper, 20 x 20 cm: Ambiguous impulses for your mental cinema!
#kunst #analogueArt #painting #mentalCinema #contemporaryArt #rubberStamp #reliefPrinting #inkjetPrint #mixedMedia #acrylicColours #climateActionNow #saveBioDiversity #systemChange #endFossilFuels #makeArtNotWar #NoRacism #noAFD #NoFascism #feelingLost #rowingBoat #onTheSea #boatTrip #gorilla #littleBoy #bodyGuard #nakedWomen #womanPosing #sexuality #sexism #feminity #feminism #motherhood #fog

All the BRIT Awards events taking place across Manchester in the lead-up to huge Co-op Live show

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/music-nightlife-news/brit-awards-events-taking-place-33461827

This is the cover #illustration for the first issue of a #zine (or #comic) series that I’m hoping to get done fairly soon. The fact that it’s #yellow is very important… I think.
#art #drawing #gorilla #theall

Working on a #cover #illustration for an upcoming #comic/#zine that I’m working on. The colour choice is very deliberate.
#art #drawing #gorilla #theall #yellow

https://youtube.com/shorts/uLuzA6fpyzQ?si=RrsBq3EmxfchpbnI

🦍💪 While a silverback #gorilla has the power to bend iron bars, even the tiny potto has a grip so strong it’s nearly impossible to move.

Researchers in #Africa and #SouthAmerica are studying how these different #primates evolved specialized muscles for everything from "one-armed pull-ups" to explosive jumps.

👉 https://www.discoverwildlife.com/mammals/worlds-strongest-primates

💁🏻‍♀️ Learn more: Ocean-Hopping Primates: How monkeys crossed the Atlantic https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/ocean-hopping-primates-how-monkeys-crossed-the-atlantic

#wildlife #biology #evolution #nature #science #gorillas #chimpanzees #biomechanics #animals #apes #monkeys

#Regenwald .org Die Zeit läuft ab für die Wälder in #Nigeria. Schutz für #Gorilla, #Schimpanse, #Elefant. #Exportverbot durchsetzen – jetzt! https://regenwald.org/petitionen/1318?t=25188-9970-166-1

#Regenwald .org Die Zeit läuft ab für die Wälder in #Nigeria. Schutz für #Gorilla, #Schimpanse, #Elefant. #Exportverbot durchsetzen – jetzt! https://regenwald.org/petitionen/1318?t=25188-9970-166-1

#Regenwald .org Die Zeit läuft ab für die Wälder in #Nigeria. Schutz für #Gorilla, #Schimpanse, #Elefant. #Exportverbot durchsetzen – jetzt! https://regenwald.org/petitionen/1318?t=25188-9970-166-1

#Regenwald .org Die Zeit läuft ab für die Wälder in #Nigeria. Schutz für #Gorilla, #Schimpanse, #Elefant. #Exportverbot durchsetzen – jetzt! https://regenwald.org/petitionen/1318?t=25188-9970-166-1

#Regenwald .org Die Zeit läuft ab für die Wälder in #Nigeria. Schutz für #Gorilla, #Schimpanse, #Elefant. #Exportverbot durchsetzen – jetzt! https://regenwald.org/petitionen/1318?t=25188-9970-166-1

As a young #gorilla, #Titus 🦍 suffered more tragedy than most #humans do in their lifetimes. A #study found, just like a human #child, he thrived due to good social and economic supports. Learn more #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social https://wp.me/pcFhgU-8TQ?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer

https://wp.me/pcFhgU-8TQ?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer

Dian Fossey: Ein Leben für die Berggorillas

Durch Abenteuerlust und Zufall wird die US-Amerikanerin #DianFossey in den 1960er Jahren zur #Gorilla-​Forscherin. Doch weil sie in #Ruanda resolut gegen #Wilderer vorgeht, machte sie sich Feinde. Am 26.12.1985 wurde sie ermordet.
https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/dian-fossey-berggorillas-ruanda-mord-100.html

Ihr Wikipedia-Eintrag zeichnet ein noch komplexeres Bild.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dian_Fossey

Auf Arte zeigt eine Doku ein "vielschichtiges Porträt der eigenwilligen Primatenforscherin."
https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/120130-000-A/dian-fossey-ihr-leben-fuer-die-gorillas/

As a young #gorilla, #Titus 🦍 suffered more tragedy than most #humans do in their lifetimes. A #study found, just like a human #child, he thrived due to good social and economic supports. Learn more #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect https://wp.me/pcFhgU-8TQ?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer

Amazing photo's and videos (most of nature, though a few shows the tragic impact of Hurricane Melissa)

I particularly enjoyed the video of the wolf dragging a fishing float to shore and then reeling in the crab trap it is attached to

https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-025-03903-x/index.html

#nature #gorilla #hurricanemelissa

UN Climate Conference.

✏️ door Gorilla

#klimaat #conferentie #gorilla

...and another photo gallery, this time of 20 finalists in a nature-comedy competition! Some great stuff, cute squirrels, funny birds,
#photographer #competition #nature #comedic #wildlife #photographs #dancing #monkeys #sleeping #frog #karate #chop #gorilla https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2025/oct/23/comedy-wildlife-awards-2025-in-pictures

...and another photo gallery, this time of 20 finalists in a nature-comedy competition! Some great stuff, cute squirrels, funny birds,
#photographer #competition #nature #comedic #wildlife #photographs #dancing #monkeys #sleeping #frog #karate #chop #gorilla https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2025/oct/23/comedy-wildlife-awards-2025-in-pictures

...and another photo gallery, this time of 20 finalists in a nature-comedy competition! Some great stuff, cute squirrels, funny birds,
#photographer #competition #nature #comedic #wildlife #photographs #dancing #monkeys #sleeping #frog #karate #chop #gorilla https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2025/oct/23/comedy-wildlife-awards-2025-in-pictures

...and another photo gallery, this time of 20 finalists in a nature-comedy competition! Some great stuff, cute squirrels, funny birds,
#photographer #competition #nature #comedic #wildlife #photographs #dancing #monkeys #sleeping #frog #karate #chop #gorilla https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2025/oct/23/comedy-wildlife-awards-2025-in-pictures

Painting on paper, 20 x 20 cm: Ambiguous impulses for your mental cinema!
#kunst #contemporaryArt #mentalCinema #analogArt #painting #rubberStamp #reliefPrinting #saveBioDiversity #climateActionNow #systemChange #endFossilFuels #makeArtNotWar #noAFD #NoRacism #NoFascism #humanRights #humanDignity #Нетвойны #rowingBoat #onTheSea #boatTrip #gorilla #littleBoy #bodyGuard #redRoses #owls #wisdom #nature #wilderness

Primates Figurines Playset (Toymany)

In 2024, Toymany teased the toy animal community with a potential set of primates. It quickly became one of the most anticipated sets of the year. Every time another set was announced, invariably the first couple responses would something along the lines of, ‘what about the primates’ or ‘still waiting for the monkeys set’. Well, wait no more my friends! In late August of 2025, Toymany finally […]

Read more... https://animaltoyforum.com/blog/primates-figurines-playset-toymany/

#Alouatta #AlouattaPalliata #commonChimpanzee #commonPatasMonkey #Erythrocebus #ErythrocebusPatas #GoldenSnubNosedMonkey #Gorilla #GorillaGorilla #GorillaGorillaGorilla #GuiananSquirrelMonkey #hamadryasBaboon #Hylobates #HylobatesLar #lionTailedMacaque #Macaca #MacacaMulatta #MacacaSilenus #Mandrill #Mandrillus #MandrillusSphinx #mantledHowlerMonkey #Nasalis #NasalisLarvatus #oliveBaboon #Pan #PanTroglodytes #Papio #PapioAnubis #PapioHamadryas #Pongo #PongoAbelii #proboscisMonkey #rhesusMacaque #Rhinopithecus #RhinopithecusRoxellana #Saimiri #SaimiriSciureus #SumatranOrangutan #westernLowlandGorilla #whiteHandedGibbon

Primate Figurine Playset (Toymany)

Two comments before I start this review…

First of all, many thanks to @Kenc and our friends at Toymany for providing this set as a review sample! It is very much appreciated and I am honored to be a representative for them.

Secondly, this is a repost of a post that was lost when our Blog briefly went down at the end of September. I didn’t have this particular review saved, so the content […]

Read more... https://animaltoyforum.com/blog/primate-figurine-playset-toymany/

#Alouatta #AlouattaPalliata #commonChimpanzee #commonPatasMonkey #Erythrocebus #ErythrocebusPatas #GoldenSnubNosedMonkey #Gorilla #GorillaGorilla #GorillaGorillaGorilla #GuiananSquirrelMonkey #hamadryasBaboob #Hylobates #HylobatesLar #lionTailedMacaque #Macaca #MacacaMulatta #MacacaSilenus #Mandrill #Mandrillus #MandrillusSphinx #mantledHowler #Nasalis #NasalisLarvatus #oliveBaboon #Pan #PanTroglodytes #Papio #PapioAnubis #PapioHamadryas #Pongo #PongoAbelii #proboscisMonkey #rhesusMacaque #Rhinopithecus #RhinopithecusRoxellana #Saimiri #SaimiriSciureus #SumatranOrangutan #westernLowlandGorilla #whiteHandedGibbon

@AMAZlNGNATURE shared the text and video below:

Animals reacting to themselves in the mirror in jungle.

#chimpanzee #gorilla #jaguar #fawn #bear

International Orangutan Day.

#orangutan #orangutans #monkey #ape #wildlife #primates #primate #apes #borneo #zoo #monkeys #indonesia #gorilla #nature #animals #saveorangutan #chimpanzee #tanjungputing #conservation #chimp #sumatranorangutan #memes #greatapes #animal #greatape #orangutanfreedom #wildlifephotography #monke #orangutantour #tanjungputingnationalpark

https://itsmostamazingindia.wordpress.com/2025/08/19/international-orangutan-day/

Support Helps Gorilla and Human Child Resilience

Young gorillas often suffer horrific events in their childhood: the death of their mother or father due to poachers, kidnapping and rough handling for the illegal pet trade. A study of 250 gorillas throughout their lifespans have found they share a lot of needs with human children. And just like their human cousins, they thrive after adverse childhood events when given the right social and economic supports. Help gorillas and 1000’s of other animals to survive when you go plant-based and #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife

Just like human #children 👨‍👩‍👧‍👧, #gorillas 🦍 who suffer #childhood tragedies are able to thrive with #economic and social supports in place. #Research #primatology #primates Help all beings, be #vegan #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect https://wp.me/pcFhgU-8TQ

As a young #gorilla, #Titus 🦍 suffered more tragedy than most #humans do in their lifetimes. A #study found, just like a human #child, he thrived due to good social and economic supports. Learn more #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect https://wp.me/pcFhgU-8TQ

Written by Stacy Rosenbaum, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan and Robin Morrison, Postdoctoral Fellow in Animal Behavior, University of Exeter. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.

Gorilla and Human Childhood Resilience Tied to Economic and Personal Support

In 1974, an infant mountain gorilla was born in Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda. Researchers named him Titus. As is typical for young gorillas in the wild, Titus spent the first years of his life surrounded by his mother, father and siblings, as well as more distant relatives and unrelated gorillas that made up his social group.

In 1978, however, tragedy struck. Poachers killed Titus’ father and brother. In the chaos that followed, his younger sister was killed by another gorilla, and his mother and older sister fled the group. Juvenile Titus, who was at a developmental stage similar to that of an 8- or 9-year-old human, experienced more tragedy in his first four years of life than many animals do in a lifetime.

Titus’ (pictured) father and brother were killed by poachers when he was very young. Then his sister was killed by another gorilla. However, with the right care and supports he managed to overcome this childhood adversity and go on to thrive and live a long life.

In people, a rough start in life is often associated with significant problems later on. Early life adversity can take a wide variety of forms, including malnutrition, war and abuse. People who experience these kinds of traumas, assuming they survive the initial event, are more likely to suffer health problems and social dysfunction in adulthood and to have shorter life spans. Often, these outcomes trace back at least in part to what public health researchers call health risk behaviors – things like smoking, poor eating habits and a sedentary lifestyle.

A lot of bad things can happen to young mountain gorillas in the wild. Image: Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund

But researchers have documented the same kinds of problems in adulthood in nonhuman animals that experienced early life adversity. For example, female baboons who have the hardest childhoods have life spans that are on average only half as long as their peers that have the easiest. Activities like smoking and unhealthy food choices can’t be the whole story, then, since animals don’t engage in typical human health risk behaviors.

Given the connection between adverse events while young and poor health later in life, one might expect that Titus’ unlucky early years would predict a short, unhealthy adulthood for him. However, there are interesting hints that things might work differently in mountain gorillas, which are one of humans’ closest living relatives.

Researchers analyzed decades of observational data to determine how life turned out for young gorillas that had faced adversity. Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund

Decades of gorilla observations

As scientists who have spent many years studying wild gorillas, we have observed a wide variety of early life experiences and an equally wide variety of adult health outcomes in these great apes. Unlike other primates, mountain gorillas don’t appear to suffer any long-term negative effects of losing their mothers at an early age, provided that they reach the age at which they are old enough to have finished nursing.

Losing your mother is only one of many bad things that can happen to a young gorilla, though. We wanted to investigate whether a pattern of resilience was more generalized. If so, could we gather any insight into the fundamental question of how early life experiences can have long-lasting effects?

To do this, we needed exceptionally detailed long-term data on wild gorillas across their lifetimes. This is no mean feat, given gorillas’ long life spans. Primatologists know that males can survive into their late 30s and females into their mid-40s.

The best data in the world to conduct such a study comes from the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund, which has been following individual mountain gorillas in Rwanda almost daily for 55 years. We conducted doctoral and postdoctoral research with the Fossey Fund and have collaborated with other scientists there for more than 20 years.

From their database, which stretches back to 1967, we extracted information on more than 250 gorillas tracked from the day they were born to the day they died or left the study area.

We used this data to identify six adverse events that gorillas younger than age 6 can endure: maternal loss, paternal loss, extreme violence, social isolation, social instability and sibling competition. These experiences are the gorilla equivalent of some kinds of adversity that are linked with long-term negative effects in humans and other animals.

Many young gorillas didn’t survive these challenges. This is a strong indication that these experiences were indeed adverse from the perspective of a gorilla.

Ubufatanye experienced the loss of her mother and father and the disintegration of her family group before the age of 5. Now 20, she has become a successful mother, raising three offspring. Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund

We were surprised to discover, however, that most of the repercussions of these hardships were confined to early life: animals that survived past the age of 6 did not have the shorter life spans commonly associated with early life adversity in other species.

In fact, gorillas that experienced three or more forms of adversity actually had better survival outcomes, with a 70% reduction in the risk of death across their adult years. Part of this hardiness, especially for males, may be due to a phenomenon called viability selection: Only the strongest animals survive early adversity, and thus they are also the animals with the longest life spans.

While viability selection may be part of the story, the patterns in our data strongly suggest that as a species, mountain gorillas are also remarkably resilient to early adversity.

Where do gorillas get their resilience?

Although our findings corroborate previous research on maternal loss in gorillas, they contrast with other studies on early adversity in humans and other long-lived mammals. Our study indicates that the negative later-life consequences of early adversity are not universal.

The absence of this connection in one of our closest relatives suggests there might be protective mechanisms that help build resiliency to early-life knocks. Gorillas may provide valuable clues to understand how early life experiences have such far-reaching effects and how people can potentially overcome them.

Young gorillas live with their parents as part of larger social groups. Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund

While there is still much left to explore, we suspect that gorillas’ food-rich habitat and cohesive social groups could underpin their resiliency. When young gorillas lose their mothers, other social group members fill in the companionship hole she leaves behind. Something similar may happen for other types of early adversity as well. A supportive social network combined with plentiful food may help a young gorilla push through challenges.

This possibility underscores the importance of ensuring that human children who experience early adversity are supported in multiple ways: socially, but also economically, especially since early adversity is particularly prevalent among children living in poverty – itself a form of adversity.

Titus, pictured here as an adult, survived more adversity before age 4 than many animals confront in a lifetime. Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund

And what became of Titus? Despite his difficult start in life, Titus went on to lead his group for two decades, siring at least 13 offspring and surviving to his 35th birthday, making him one of the most successful gorillas the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund has ever studied.

Though Titus’ story is only a single anecdote, it turns out that his resilience is not so unusual for a member of his species.

Written by Stacy Rosenbaum, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan and Robin Morrison, Postdoctoral Fellow in Animal Behavior, University of Exeter. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.

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With their heavy fur, squat, muscular physiques, and wicked canines, bestial human gorillas cannot pass for hairy humans like humanoid chimpanzees can, and possess even more of a tendency to knuckle-walk than their pan troglodyte relatives.
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