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Photo of the Day #533: Mother gorilla and baby

By laelaps on March 26, 2009.

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A mother gorilla (Gorilla gorilla) and her child. Photographed at the National Zoo.


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Beautiful. Such tenderness!

Beautiful post, beautiful photos.

Nice post.

No doubt we are cousins to other apes. Likely a separate family tree that joins chimps and gorillas a long, long time ago.

What separtes humans from other apes is our intellectual capacity and our drive to serve ourselves.

What separates other apes from humans is their instinctual capacity and their determination to live in harmony with their surroundings.

Hmmmm.......