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Dawn Prince-Hughes (born 1964) is an American anthropologist, primatologist, and ethologist.She is the author of several books, including Gorillas Among Us: A Primate Ethnographer's Book of Days and her memoir Songs of the Gorilla Nation: My Journey Through Autism, and she is the editor of the essay collection Aquamarine Blue 5: Personal Stories of College Students with Autism.
Gorillas are the largest living primates, reaching heights between 1.25 and 1.8 metres, weights between 100 and 270 kg, and arm spans up to 2.6 metres, depending on species and sex. They tend to live in troops, with the leader being called a silverback.
The Western lowland gorilla is primarily herbivorous, and its main diet consists of roots, shoots, fruit, wild celery, tree bark and pulp, which are found in the thick forest of Central and West Africa. [15] During the wet season gorillas commonly consume fruits.
Dawn Prince-Hughes has written that great apes meet the commonly accepted standards for personhood: "self-awareness; comprehension of past, present, and future; the ability to understand complex rules and their consequences on emotional levels; the ability to choose to risk those consequences, a capacity for empathy, and the ability to think ...
Jerry and Mary Newport. Gerald Newport (1948–2023), [1] better known as Jerry Newport, and Mary Newport (1954/1955 – ?), [1] née Mary Meinel, also known as Mary Meinel-Newport, were authors, advocates, and public speakers who had been diagnosed with Asperger syndrome and whose lives became the basis for the 2005 film Mozart and the Whale. [2]
Binti Jua. Tended to three-year-old boy who had fallen into her enclosure. Binti Jua (born March 17, 1988) is a female western lowland gorilla in the Brookfield Zoo, in Brookfield, Illinois, United States, outside of Chicago. She received media attention after a situation in 1996 in which she tended to a three-year-old boy who had been injured ...
Koko (gorilla) Hanabiko " Koko " (July 4, 1971 – June 19, 2018) was a female western lowland gorilla. Koko was born in San Francisco Zoo, [2] and lived most of her life at The Gorilla Foundation 's preserve in the Santa Cruz Mountains. [3] The name "Hanabiko" (花火子), lit. 'fireworks child', is of Japanese origin and is a reference to her ...
Gus Gorilla is a murderous animatronic from Willy's Wonderland. Magazines and literature A monstrous German gorilla in a World War I propaganda poster (Harry R. Hopps; 1917) Fester Bestertester, the protagonist of Don Martin's Mad strip National Gorilla-Suit Day is beset by gorillas (or persons dressed as gorillas). "National Gorilla-Suit Day ...