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Laelaps is the blog of Brian Switek, a freelance science writer based in New Jersey. This blog frequently features his musings on paleontology, evolution, and the history of science. Switek also blogs for Smithsonian magazine's Dinosaur Tracking.
Switek's first book, Written in Stone, will be published next year by Bellevue Literary Press.
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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