In West- Central Africa people probably been dying of AIDS for Thousands of years. And they contracted HIV-1 virus by hunting chimpanzees for meat. Fend Goo a scientists from The University Of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) theory is that for centuries, HIV infections were limited...

We all know that habitats of animals everywhere are being destroyed, but the extent of the problem is unimaginable. In recent years, the mountain gorilla population has been cut in half, and are now down to around 650 gorillas in the world. (3) If something is not done to maintain and expand the...

Gorillas are apes and, since apes are man's closest relatives, they hold a very special fascination for us as humans. Animals have existed on earth for around 600 million years followed by mammals some 200 million years ago, and finally the first primates about 70 million years ago. When it comes t...

The primate pan paniscus, also known as bonobo or pygmy chimpanzee, is one of the last of the Great Apes, and was completely unknown to scientists until just seventy-five years ago. Before the day in 1929 when the true identity of its skull was found out, it sat in a Belgium museum, thought to have ...

Richard Preston's The Hot Zone is an excellent nonfiction account of a deadly virus from the central rain forests of Africa that suddenly appears in the suburbs of Washington DC. The Virus is highly contagious and has no cure. This book describes many frightening encounters with this virus and ...

Chimpanzee versus Humans similarities & differences Since the first days of human thought into their beginnings, chimpanzees have played a vital role in showing who we were. The chimpanzee, one of the great apes, makes it home in the forests of Central and West Africa. Their long arms and legs ...

Chimpanzee versus Humans similarities & differences Since the first days of human thought into their beginnings, chimpanzees have played a vital role in showing who we were. The chimpanzee, one of the great apes, makes it home in the forests of Central and West Africa. Their long arms and legs ...

Since the first days of human thought into their beginnings, chimpanzees have played a vital role in showing who we were. The chimpanzee, one of the great apes, makes it home in the forests of Central and West Africa. Their long arms and legs adapt them for living in such regions as lowland jungl...

Western Lowland Gorilla Humans share more than 98 percent of our DNA with gorillas. Because of our arboreal heritage, primates share assiduous anatomical characteristics, including depth and color vision, opposable thumbs, and fingertip pads as the primary organs of touch (Kottak, 109). Large a...

Prehistoric: The prehistoric period is used to describe the period preceding written history. The people living during this period of time were known as being from the stone age because this is when stone was used for tools. For example, flint was chipped and shaped into tools and weapons. Als...