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These confident animals from around the world are not afraid of striking a pose and showing off their good looks (pictured: a winking tiger at the Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve, India).
Kwashi was introduced to our all female group for the first time on July 26th. The introduction went well! Photo by Dave Jenike
An adorable endangered baby gorilla has been born at Taronga Zoo, much to the delight of both zookeepers and his mother and father, making another addition to the endangered species.
A group of contractors have found themselves being 'terrorised' on a daily basis - by a 28-stone, 12-year-old gorilla named N'Dowe at Paignton Zoo in Devon.
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Chad Staples has cared for month-old Kaius since he was taken away by his father, then rejected by his mother
Hanabiko Koko - the most intelligent gorilla on Earth. A gorilla who learned American Sign Language (ASL). Koko was able to communicate with people using ASL.
Women are said to be flocking to a zoo in Japan to see a silverback gorilla described as "very good-looking".
Some of the last remaining mountain gorillas on the planet are found in Uganda, Rwanda and Congo
Frank the baby gorilla at the San Diego Zoo
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Krishna was playing his flute sitting under a champa tree by the river Jamuna. It was late in the afternoon, dense clouds were gathering in the sky. Music floating around him gathered numerous peacocks, deers and calves around him to soak in the nectar dropping around Krishna.He was lost deep in ecstasy, waiting for Radha rani, she promised to meet him by the river today. Hari Keshav was a seventy year old man with frail bones. In the village across the river his daughter had a baby girl, he wanted to see her and bless her before he leaves his old frame. He set off limping and clutching on his staff towards the river.The river was swollen and dark, evening was setting in and there were no boats in sight. He contemplated crossing the river without a boat.He knew he has no time to wait so he got into the turbulent river hoping to cross it somehow, within moments currents overpowered him and he started drifting away. Krishna's ecstasy was disrupted by his call for help. He was playing flute so Radha- rani can follow the sound and find him, without which she could be lost in the forest. He made an image of himself with loose earth and mud and put his flute in the hand of that figure that looked just like him, then he requested the wind to play the flute till he returns. Wind happily played along and divine music floated in the air again. Krishna then transformed his outer appearance to look like an ordinary being. He became a big and muscular woodcutter and he leaped into the river to save the old man. Krishna lifted him in his arms, crossed the river and gently placed the old man on the ground. Hearing Krishna's flute Hari keshav bolted and rushed to Krishna's replica, bowed and cried to him, thanking him again and again. He forgot all about the woodcutter who saved his life and did not even turn around to thank him. Krishna smiled thinking human beings are so blind, they refuse to see the divine in other humans but go prostrate before lifeless images. Divinity lies in simplicity but not in ignorance. He told the story to Radha-rani amused by the ignorance of the poor old soul.
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Spanish scientists sequenced the genome of Snowflake, who lived for 40 years at Barcelona Zoo, and found he was likely a product of a relationship between close relatives such as an uncle and niece.
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Western lowland gorilla Kiondo, who weighs 30 stone, seemed to be a playful mood when he decided to communicate with people at the Paignton Zoo Environmental Park in Devon.
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At Port Lympne Wild Animal Park The now famous walking Western Lowland Gorilla "Ambam", a weird site.
Hi friends, I've been inspired by some of the members of this forum who are just beginning to sculpt to put up a tutorial showing the process of making a Silver
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Oh, you think they're awesome and cute 'cause they're just like us? Wrong. They're the worst.
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The happiest White Ape I started to put my notes together for the Ape Men of the Black City, and realized - there's probably a line being crossed in my thinking, and I wanted to get some reader feedback on what would fly in their own games. (And remember, I game with kids, so there's going to be some things in the Black City manuscript that wouldn't be fully expressed if one of the kids is playing - I don't have the luxury of running 100% adult content these days…) In the Hippodrome section of the city, there is the crumbling ruins of an ancient coliseum that's been inhabited by different troops of White Apes that live near the surface. The apes live near the frozen surface, but hunt and gather food down in the fecund warrens of level 2. Here's the thing - the literary references to white apes involve seedy ape-human interbreeding. There's the Tarzan story about the lost city of Opar that has ape-human inbreeding (such that all the men of the city are misshapen ape hybrids). The other famous tale I can think of is Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and his Family, by Lovecraft. Your momma was an ape! Or in Arthur's case, great grandmother. Ack, I must now go immolate myself. So how to use these ideas in the Black City? The ape men will be related to humans; both races having been genetically tinkered by the city founders in the distant past. I'm thinking the ape men were humans that were devolved by Grey bio-engineering to create a more durable, physical slave race for the aliens, and furred to withstand the climate. Descendants have continued to inhabit the ruins and some of the nearby mountains and glaciers. (I'm sure there will be a 'devolution tank' in the city like the sensory deprivation tank in the movie Altered States, that can devolve a normal person into a White Ape hominid). The dictates of good taste would leave things there. But there will be some unscrupulous (human) raiders that have beaten down some of the tribes, taken 'ape wives' and fathered hybrid children in the ruins. There's a dark exploitation theme regarding more sophisticated cultures taking advantage of the unsophisticated one that still plays out today in the third world - in this case, it's cross-species. Most gamers "tolerate" half-orcs because orcs are monsters and "do that kind of stuff". Orcs are just born bad. And some folks like to play bad-dark-angsty anti-heroes - my daddy was an orc. Even Lovecraft's deep one hybrids are inflicted on humanity by monsters. It's awful, but humans are the victims. But what about the callous, uncaring crew of some adventuring rivals being the abusers? It's about looking into the mirror and realizing the monsters are us. I'll see where the comments go - there's certainly a literary precedence for cross-species relations in horror. White Apes and White Ape hybrids are race-class choices in Realms of Crawling Chaos, one of the supplements I'm using for inspiration. Hybrids had to come from somewhere... It lets me put some ugly secrets into Trade Town that some of the other adventuring groups would kill to keep secret. I wonder what my players would do, if they discovered another crew of adventurers had done "bad things" to a bunch of simple primitives? Not exactly sure, but I think it would involve axes and swords and a heap of frontier justice. Note: A radically different approach would be something like the Great White Ape of Mars and make these guys massive, carnivorous and ultra-violent, but so many things in the Black City already want to eat you, and it seems more interesting to make the White Apes into a bunch of peace-loving hippy primitive hominids.
