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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.
Gorilla Glue is an American brand of polyurethane adhesives based in Sharonville, Ohio. They are known for their original Gorilla Glue, which was first sold in 1994. The company has since branched out to make a line of similar products, including tapes, epoxies, and other adhesives. It is known for its unique advertisements, which involve ...
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 ...
The Black Guerrilla Family (BGF, also known as the Black Gorilla Family, the Black Family, the Black Vanguard, and Jamaa) is an African American black power prison gang, street gang, and political organization founded in 1966 by George Jackson, George "Big Jake" Lewis, and W.L. Nolen while they were incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison in Marin County, California.
History One of the first optic headlamp lenses, the Corning Conaphore. Selective yellow "Noviol" glass version shown.. Corning Glass Works was founded in 1851 by Amory Houghton, in Somerville, Massachusetts, originally as the Bay State Glass Co. [citation needed] It later moved to Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and operated as the Brooklyn Flint Glass Works.
Kalema-Zikusoka was Uganda's first wildlife veterinary officer and was the star of the BBC documentary, Gladys the African Vet. [2] In 2009 she won the Whitley Gold Award for her conservation work. [3] In December 2021 she was proclaimed a United Nations Environment Programme 's Champion of the Earth for Science and Innovation for her work with ...
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 ...
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.