Comments on: An encounter with our cousins once removed

By: Christine Marie

Christine Marie — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 09:44:38 +0000

re: “”These are our second closest living relatives after the chimpanzee”…

What, no love for the Bonobos? We’re closer to the bonobos than the apes. Speaking of bonobos, I think this crowd will enjoy reading the evolution-minded “Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality” by
Christopher Ryan, Ph.D. & Cacilda Jethá, M.D. Highly recommended.

By: tabata

tabata — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 15:32:04 +0000

Haha great video

By: alan

alan — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 13:48:52 +0000

These are our second closest living relatives after the chimpanzee.
And there was me thinking that position was filled by politicians.
The rationale being that randomly born larger males won more fights, had more sex
yet would never encounter an albeit primitive and somewhat puny primate, packing an AK47? Damn those evolutionary dead-ends.
if you treat them with respect, no looking in the eyes, stay low, still and submissive, you’ll be absolutely fine
WARNING: Don’t try this technique when dealing with MPs. It could prove fatal for us all.
replace older cells in bodies.
A recent TV documentary showed youngsters practicing open-source genetic engineering in a community centre.
Recipe for longevity: Take one Gran, and the relevant non-ageing DNA command string from a certain jellyfish.

By: Melissa Koski

Melissa Koski — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 04:41:00 +0000

Amazing! What an intense experience. What a gift capturing it on film. Thanks for sharing!

By: Flapjack

Flapjack — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 09:51:37 +0000

I spotted the gorilla. Did I win anything?

By: Shaun Banks

Shaun Banks — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:55:42 +0000

WOW That was a really amazing video. Evolution is quite amazing – imagine having that muscle mass without having to do that much exorcise.

Evolution is brilliant but the forces and mechanisms that drive and create it are truely astounding as shown in the previous blog. Evolution has a plan so brilliant that it would be ridiculous to expect one of its by products (us) to be able to understand it. Unless we are the final product of evolution then maybe we might one day understand it otherwise we will all have to evolve a little more.

I love Gorillas they have got it all going on – nothing to do and all day to do it in.

By: Richard Washington

Richard Washington — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:38:02 +0000

Hi Derren,

We saw a pair of Gorillas at Animal Kingdom, not exactly in the wild but still basically amazing.

Just look in their eyes is enough to relate to them. Evolution is brilliant

Regards

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:27:07 +0000

Just an amazing video!