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Attempts have been made to teach a gorilla named ''Koko'' a form of [[sign language]], although this is highly questionable.<ref>As part of her research into animal communication in 1972, a young graduate student in developmental psychology volunteered to teach sign language to a 1-year-old female Gorilla named Koko. [http://www.las.uiuc.edu/alumni/news/fall2003/03fall_Patterson.html] </ref> | Attempts have been made to teach a gorilla named ''Koko'' a form of [[sign language]], although this is highly questionable.<ref>As part of her research into animal communication in 1972, a young graduate student in developmental psychology volunteered to teach sign language to a 1-year-old female Gorilla named Koko. [http://www.las.uiuc.edu/alumni/news/fall2003/03fall_Patterson.html] </ref> | ||
| − | Young earth [[creationist]]s believe that gorillas were [[creation|created]] about 4000 years ago. According to evolutionary thought, humans shared a common ancestor with gorillas as recently as four to seven million years ago.<ref>Hobolth A, Christensen OF, Mailund T, Schierup MH (2007) Genomic Relationships and Speciation Times of Human, Chimpanzee, and Gorilla Inferred from a Coalescent Hidden Markov Model [http://genetics.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.pgen.0030007 PLoS Genet 3(2)]</ref> | + | Young earth [[creationist]]s believe that gorillas were [[creation|created]] about 4000 years ago, but the earth is billions of years old. According to evolutionary thought, humans shared a common ancestor with gorillas as recently as four to seven million years ago.<ref>Hobolth A, Christensen OF, Mailund T, Schierup MH (2007) Genomic Relationships and Speciation Times of Human, Chimpanzee, and Gorilla Inferred from a Coalescent Hidden Markov Model [http://genetics.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.pgen.0030007 PLoS Genet 3(2)]</ref> |
==Taxonomy== | ==Taxonomy== | ||
Revision as of 13:52, August 7, 2007
| Gorilla | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom Information | |
| Kingdom | Animalia |
| Phylum Information | |
| Phylum | Chordata |
| Sub-phylum | Vertebrata |
| Class Information | |
| Class | Mammalia |
| Order Information | |
| Order | Primates |
| Sub-order | Hominoidea |
| Family Information | |
| Family | Hominidae |
| Sub-family | Homininae |
| Tribe Information | |
| Tribe | Gorillini |
| Genus Information | |
| Genus | Gorilla |
| Species Information | |
| Species | gorilla |
| Subspecies | See article for full list of subspecies |
| Population statistics | |
The gorilla, the largest of the living primates, is a ground-dwelling omnivore that inhabits the forests of Africa. Gorillas are divided into two species and either four or five subspecies.[1] Comparison of DNA sequences of humans and gorillas show them to be 99% identical.
Attempts have been made to teach a gorilla named Koko a form of sign language, although this is highly questionable.[2] Young earth creationists believe that gorillas were created about 4000 years ago, but the earth is billions of years old. According to evolutionary thought, humans shared a common ancestor with gorillas as recently as four to seven million years ago.[3]
Taxonomy
- G. gorilla (Western gorilla)
- G. g. gorilla (Western Lowland gorilla)
- G. g. diehli (Cross River gorilla)
- G. beringei (Eastern gorilla)
- G. b. beringei (Mountain gorilla)
- G. b. graueri (Eastern Lowland gorilla)
References
- ↑ A proposed third subspecies of Gorilla beringei (which has not yet received a Latin designation) is the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest population of the Mountain Gorilla, called the Bwindi Gorilla International Fund for Animal Welfare
- ↑ As part of her research into animal communication in 1972, a young graduate student in developmental psychology volunteered to teach sign language to a 1-year-old female Gorilla named Koko. [1]
- ↑ Hobolth A, Christensen OF, Mailund T, Schierup MH (2007) Genomic Relationships and Speciation Times of Human, Chimpanzee, and Gorilla Inferred from a Coalescent Hidden Markov Model PLoS Genet 3(2)