jhay on February 15th, 2008

Male G.: “What’s this?”
Female G.: “It’s called ventro-ventral copulation.”
Photo caption by malnicore
Alright, this ground-breaking photo of a Gorilla couple copulating face-to-face or called technically as ventro-ventral copulation was taken in a forest clearing in the Republic of Congo, it was released by scientists from the Wildlife Conservation Society and Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
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jhay on November 29th, 2006

Personalized DNA? You can bet a monkey’s butt on it. Which is not really surprising when one would consider that we humans are among the most dispersed organisms in the planet. We inhabit almost every terrain on Earth and continue to expand our territories, often with harmful effects to other species.

This also justifies the difference between ethnic groups and help us understand how they adapted to their specific environments; e.g. Why Asians have a smaller body build compared to their European cousins and why our African brothers are more resistant to HIV infections compared to our South American cousins and so forth.

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