"A gorilla has achieved fame for walking upright on his hind legs like a human at a British animal park.
Ambam, a Western lowland gorilla, was filmed strolling about his enclosure by animal researcher Johanna Watson."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41292533/ns/technology_and_science-science/
How does this relate to explanationsof how man began to stand?
How does this relate to the concept of the chain of being?
How does this relate to comparative psychology?
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Wow, I think this is very cool to see. There is no other animal that can walk upright like humans can. Scientists think there is a close link between humans and animals such as gorillas and chimpanzees and this makes the connection even closer. At one time humans probably walked like a gorilla does, using their knuckles but evoloved out of it. I wonder if being able to walk like that gives Ambam any advantages. Can he move faster or slower like that? I would think it makes him seem more powerful because he is making himself look larger to the other gorillas. Maybe they seem him as a little bit intimidating because he can do this.
This video was interesting and also funny. Scientists believe that bonobos are the closest primate like us that can walk on 2 feet for a long distance, and now seeing this footage apparently gorillas can too! It's interesting knowing that we could have originated bipedalism through these species. Maybe the other gorillas will start to walk like Ambam and evolve into bipedalists and becoming more like us!
My God.....now that the gorillas can walk like humans, they might gain our intelligence and then Planet of the Apes will finally happen and we will be taken over by those "DAMN DIRTY APES".
This wasn't shocking to me when I first came across this on the news and read it here again. Gorillas and primates have shared lots of similarities with us humans. So when this gorilla started walking like us it didn't shock me that much. I figured something like this would happen due to the fact that species are still changing and environments are still changing. So species are still evolving to and changing to live and become adaptive to their environments.
This wasn't all that suprising to me. primates are pretty similar to us so it makes sense that they may be adapting and evolving by learning to stand, or in other ways. The chain of being can be interpreted by meaning we have evolved from lesser forms of life, and that primates are just a step or two behind us-- therefore this happening might "support" that theory.
This was very cool to see but not shocking at all. For years we've heard about studies with primates indicating that they are not that different than aus and can do many things similar to us (washo- that was the name, right?, primates that have learned how to use tools, etc) so a gorilla walking on two feet was almost... expected. Hah.
Humans probably walked like this at one point but evolved out of it0 kind of like this primates are doing.
I've watched numerous shows on the Discovery Channel how humans evolved into the way we are (physically) now. It's crazy to see, but not surprising that it has happened. I'm pretty soon some time down the line they will spot a Gorilla that runs full speed in the upright position. It's the the way organisms adapt to their surroundings. Maybe something in it's habitat made it to where it had to start walking up right… may have been an injury… who knows? Just like us humans change and adapt to our surroundings, animals do too. If we play football and are a little small, we lift weights to get bigger which leads to our physique changing so we can withstand more hits. Same goes for animals and other creatures.
It relates to comparative psychology because it's simply comparing how animals evolve just as humans did, but more so how apes evolve to be more like humans when they are already the closest mammals to us (relationship wise).