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u/Ok-Tap-6580 — 8 days ago
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Which is better to see gorillas, Rwanda or Uganda?
I get this question almost daily—and honestly, both are amazing. Rwanda is easier, safer, and packed with luxury lodges. Uganda wins on price, permit access, longer gorilla encounters, and extra safari adventures. If you want comfort, pick Rwanda. If you want value and variety, Uganda steals the show.
u/Ok-Tap-6580 — 1 day ago
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The moment when a female gorilla is ready to mate is not evident physically like it is in chimpanzees. In most cases, it is the female who initiates the mating process as soon as she ready. When a female gorilla is ready to mate, she will approach the dominant male slowly, make sustained eye contact and purse her lips.
u/Ok-Tap-6580 — 8 days ago
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Just like a male human chillin on the couch after work
u/Ok-Tap-6580 — 3 days ago
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Just visited a zoo in the UK and they had two big enclosures. One for gorillas (2 i believe) and one for orangutan’s (5?) They were very clearly well looked after with a lot of room however I just felt weird viewing them!
They’re so similar to us, not far off at all and to think we’re building the zoo and they’re in it just felt sort of wrong to me? I love zoos don’t get me wrong! The conservation of it all and the learning aspects are incredible and i’ve never felt this way about other animals there but this just really struck a cord with me?
I just felt sort of bad… for them? I don’t really know how to describe it to be honest. Like we were putting ourselves on a massive pedestal when actually…. we’re all so similar?
I’d love to know how you guys feel about it and think about it!! Please let me know
u/TaR0TT — 10 days ago
Some captive western lowland gorillas at US zoos and some bloomberg terminals are now developing a real medical condition called pneumatosis intestinalis. Gas pockets form inside the wall of the colon. Yes, IN THE WALL. Some animals are asymptomatic. Some die - like GME refuses to do.
A UF lab has 16S data on 15 zoo gorillas. The captive cohort runs 273x more Lactobacillus than wild gorillas, plus a Sarcina strain at 82% prevalence whose pathogenic cousin killed a chimpanzee at another zoo. One gorilla in the study died.
They need $10K in nanopore reagents to run shotgun metagenomics and find out why. Data goes public, code open-sourced, pre-registered Registered Report.
u/Abstract_Only — 8 days ago