They are getting killed by the Democratic Republic of Congo mining all the coltan that they live on. It is sad because in about five years there all going to be extinct because the people in the Democratic Republic of Congo are shooting them because otherwise they get attacked because they need to get the coltan to make mobile phones. It destroys their environment and means that they have to attack. The tigers in the area are also coming when the people are asleep to eat them because their near their den. When I asked Andy on his opinion on the matter he said “This is a horrible thing to be happening to the gorillas!”When they take the gorillas they test products on them before they test them on humans.  So please help!

Ashrita walked almost 81 miles over the course of more than 23 and a half hours, with milk balanced on his head! Actually, since Ashrita is a strict vegan, it was actually soy juice, not milk.

#2 – Driving Course from Hell

David Morgan from the United Kingdom has a lot of cones. Traffic cones! He has 137 different kinds of traffic cones.

#3 – It’s a Jungle Out There

In September 2005, 637 people dressed as Gorillas gathered in London to support the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund.

#4 – When Pigs Jump?

The highest pig jump was recorded at 2 feet 3 ½ inches by Kotetsu the pig in Japan.

#5 – Two’s Company, Three’s a Crowd, and Eight is…?

The largest space crew in history is, get this, an entire eight people! Then again, good luck trying to break THAT record.

#6 – Holy Molars

The largest sets of dental caps are 50 centimeters in length! But they of course weren’t for a human. They were for Spike, the elephant! Each one weighed 28 pounds and the surgery to put them on took three and a half hours.

#7 – Unscramble the Scrabble

The highest number of simultaneous games of Scrabble ever played occurred at Northland Secondary School in Singapore. On March 14, 2006, 1,042 participants played in 521 games of Scrabble, all at the same time.

#8 – Gymnastic God

In April of 2003, young Aratak Grigoyan held a technically correct Azaryas cross position for 22.9 seconds. His record was recorded at the Yerevan State Physical Culture University in Amenia.

Conclusion

World records aren’t something you can just pick up and do when you’re bored. They take time and a lot of effort. While some may be impossible for the average person to break, like the giant dental caps, or the space crew, some like collectables can be done! So who’s not to say your name might be in a book some day?

The Gorilla is the largest and most powerful ape. Even so, he’s quite gentle. And, he has the smallest penis. When he finds a mate, he stays with her “forever.” Often, the Gorilla will find another lovely gorillette and make love to her. He will invite her to come home, and then he will be practicing bigamy. But, then, he is true and faithful to both “forever.” When they have babies, he participates and helps raise the kids. If he finds a third female to mate, he will bring her home, too. Thus, in this fashion, the Gorilla is practicing plural marriage or polygyny, having many sex partners, but being with them all. Among humans, there are men who either live in a plural marriage situation (some Arab Tribes, some off-shoots of Mormon groups, and others), or they practice polygyny. Historically and culturally such human family arrangements have been common.

The Orangutan male prefers the “one night stand.” When he wants to mate, or have sex, he goes out (to a “banana” bar?) and finds a willing female. They have their tryst, and after they are done satiating their needs, each goes his separate way, and he never calls her again. He goes home – to his siblings and their babies. As a good uncle, he remains in that family organization to raise the babies that his sisters have. And, similarly, the female orangutan is impregnated, returns to her home, and gives birth. After the birth of her baby, she will get help from her brothers who have been out there spreading their seed. In essence, orangutans have many sex partners. There are certainly quite a few human males who just want to “hook up,” have sex, and going back home to their own lives without any responsibility accepted for the babies they help make.

Chimpanzees, which share 99% of the same DNA as humans, are very promiscuous. Males will have sex with any female, at almost any time. And females will copulate with any male as well. When a couple meet and begin to have sex, they are in a sexual frenzy for days or weeks, but then the passion tapers off. But after a while, if they meet another chimp, they will give it no thought to having sex with this new “stranger,” going through a similar passionate frenzy. Overall, chimps have many sex partners during their lives. When a female becomes pregnant, however, she tries to gain the favor of one of the stronger members of the Chimpanzee Clan.

So, Gorillas live alone with their mates and children. Orangutans live in their extended family. Chimps have a very large family or clan, and sometimes form larger alliances, like gangs or armies. As the chimp is smaller than the Gorilla or Orangutan, and since they are omnivorous, they often need help tracking down and catching live prey to eat. Gorillas don’t need others to help find food, as they are vegetarians; few Gorillas need help to sneak up on a broccoli.

Chimpanzees are also very territorial. Fights between nearby clans break out and they can be vicious.

Many a human male has been chimpanzee-ish: promiscuous, political, and war-like.

Then we come to the Bonobos. They are a subset of the Chimpanzee, but they are the most advanced (in brain power) of the apes, except for man. They are slightly smaller than the regular chimps. And they love sex, too. Some bonobos, male or female, will have sex with anyone, male or female. All the time. Over time, bonobos have many, many sex partners. And while they have their gangs and clans, instead of viciously fighting over a territory, they charge into battle and have sex with anyone and everyone. Make love, not war. The two clan leaders embrace each other, one arm around the other, each hand holding the other’s testicles.

Are there humans like bonobos? There are many men and women who would rather screw that shoot. And what about homosexuality? Yep, both there, too. How about the testicular grip? Well, the Old Testament gives many cases where people like Abraham would make a pact with another leader, and they’d hold each others’ balls while hugging. Even in the late Greek era, the members of the Senate in Athens would stand to “testify” before their colleagues while cupping their testes in one hand.

So, why do we marvel if humans, the most advanced ape, act in so many ways like the apes that we are related to? Instead of wondering why a man or a woman has chosen to have sex with someone other than his “spouse”, we humans immediately ask “Why? What caused that person to cheat?” and things like that. In reality, if we find a man or woman who has chosen one mate and stayed with that one mate forever, that is when we should ask, “What has caused him, or her, to be faithful to one companion, unlike the rest of the primates?”