Gorilla

Cool Facts About Animals

Cool Facts About Animals Podcast

Podcast, Coolfacts, Education For Kids, Kids, Animals, Kids & Family, Pets & Animals

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🗓️ 21 August 2018

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Gorillas get a pretty bad rap in movies and tv shows. They’re usually shown as being aggressive, violent, and not very intelligent. In fact, gorillas are super smart, communicative, peace-loving creatures. And we share about 98% of our DNA with them! Learn all about these amazing creatures on this episode.

Many thanks to Sky, Rinnah and Jon for the awesome suggestion! If you have a suggestion, or would like to take a shot at our Creature Quiz or Riddle, send us an email at [email protected] or tweet us at @coolanimalspod.

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0:00.0	Hi, welcome to Cool Facts About Animals.
0:02.6	I'm Grady Wilkinson, and today I'm here with Theo and his special friend, monkey, the chimpanzee.
0:11.7	Hello.
0:16.0	And I'm also here with Clara and her monkey that he who has not been named,
0:22.1	and Correoy the bear.
0:23.7	Hey guys.
0:28.7	Her monkey's a little sad.
0:30.7	And Grady, who are you with?
0:32.0	I'm with Jaguar and Sound Monkey the Chimp.
0:35.8	Oh, hi.
0:36.7	Hi, people's meow meow. It's nice to see you again i mean talk to you
0:41.6	today we're excited to be bringing you a request from sky who's nine and rena and john who are five
0:47.4	and their request was for gorillas gorillas i've always been wanting to do a guerrilla podcast.
0:55.0	Yeah, me too.
0:57.0	One of the reasons why I was excited to do one is because they're so closely related to humans,
1:02.0	to us.
1:03.0	Does anyone know how much they're related to us?
1:06.0	How similar their DNA is to ours?
1:08.0	95%.
1:09.0	Yeah, estimates are 95 to 99%. And what I've seen the most is 98%. They're only about
1:15.4	2% different from us then. And, you know, we saw a bunch of videos of them in a lot of pictures. And when
1:21.8	you look at the gorilla's eyes, like they're a little bit more narrowly placed than ours.
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