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Hi, I'm Jess, and I'm 22. I live out in the English countryside.

I love all animals, but I've always had a soft spot for Primates.

I have a diploma in Primatology, and another in Zoology. I have a BA (Hons) degree in Media, which I wish I'd never done.

I have recently become a voluntary Ambassador for Wild Futures, a UK based primate charity and sanctuary.

I'm also a huge Potterhead, and would have studied Care of Magical Creatures at NEWT level if only my letter hadn't gotten lost in the Muggle post.

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May 14, 2013

GRASP

9:34am | URL: http://tmblr.co/Z8EaJxkye31A

(Notes: 2)

April 15, 2013

allcreatures:

Gorilla Photobombs Two Youngsters at Werribee Open Range Zoo In Melbourne, Australia

9:18pm | URL: http://tmblr.co/Z8EaJximhmBW

(Notes: 602)

Filed under: ape primate gorilla animal

April 8, 2013

sdzsafaripark:

More Monroe antics.

(via theanimalblog)

7:38am | URL: http://tmblr.co/Z8EaJxiBjiSm

(Notes: 1,432)

Filed under: ape primate animal gorilla gif

March 4, 2013

(Source: bitchyanthropologist, via fyeahgreatapes)

11:08pm | URL: http://tmblr.co/Z8EaJxfWjMHg

(Notes: 36)

Filed under: ape gorilla primate animal

January 21, 2013

did-you-kno:

Source

(via did-you-kno)

9:44am | URL: http://tmblr.co/Z8EaJxcHOQOh

(Notes: 9,585)

Filed under: ape primate gorilla koko animal

January 14, 2013

GRASP

9:47am | URL: http://tmblr.co/Z8EaJxbkcc-5

(Notes: 81)

Filed under: ape primate gorilla animal

November 27, 2012

rhamphotheca:

Population of Endangered Mountain Gorillas Grows Slightly

by OurAmazingPlanet staff

The world’s mountain gorilla population has grown slightly to 880 animals, according to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) conservation group. That’s up from an estimated population of 781 animals in 2010.

The critically endangered animals live in only two places in the world — Uganada’s Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, and the Virunga Massif area, which spans parts of Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda.

The latest census counted 400 mountain gorillas living in Bwindi, while 480 animals were counted in the Virunga Massif in 2010…

(read more: Live Science) (photo: Sarel Kromer)

9:46am | URL: http://tmblr.co/Z8EaJxY8_hg8

(Notes: 41)

Filed under: ape primate animal science gorilla

November 22, 2012

did-you-kno:

Source

(via did-you-kno)

9:40am | URL: http://tmblr.co/Z8EaJxXoCf0A

(Notes: 8,967)

Filed under: ape primate gorilla animal koko cat

November 6, 2012

smithsonianmag:

Rare and Intimate Photos of a Gorilla Family in the Wild

Butterfly season came suddenly to the Dzanga-Sangha reserve, a dense rainforest in the Central African Republic. Furious storms of butterflies filled the air, and their frail brown forms carpeted the earth. They swarmed over Fiona Rogers and Anup Shah and also seemed to pester the gorilla family that the photographers were following. The harassed apes bashed away at the insects and clamped their mouths shut so none would fly in.

Except, that is, for the family’s dominant female, Malui. She plowed straight through one drove of butterflies resting in the bais, as the swampy meadows in the forest are known. Seeming to relish the rush of wings, she paused to let the butterflies envelop her. Then she did it again. - Continue reading at Smithsonian.com.

Photo by Anup Shah and Fiona Rogers

Ed note: Click through for many more incredible photographs of the gorilla family.