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Photo of the Day #366: Western gorillas
Category: Mammals • Photography • Primates
Posted on: October 10, 2008 6:19 AM, by Brian Switek
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Um, just curious: why does their hair look red? Is that normal for Western gorillas, or is it something else?
Posted by: wolfwalker | October 10, 2008 10:34 AM
Some of these gorillas were lighter colored; their hair was more brown than black.
The rest of the problem is that I took the photos in NEF format, which means that when I convert it to a jpg I need to fiddle with the colors a bit, so it's a little over-saturated. I should be getting a better program to manage such photos later this month, although in the future I might just take jpgs to save myself the trouble of having to modify them later.
Posted by: Laelaps | October 10, 2008 10:38 AM
They look like gingerillas!
Posted by: Stevo Darkly | October 10, 2008 3:08 PM
I have seen film of wild gorillas on the BBC - they followed a group of Western Lowland Gorillas through their day. At least one of the females was distinctly ginger on the back - I guess gorillas have a certain amount of variation in hair colour as well as humans.
Posted by: Alan | October 12, 2008 6:01 PM