Hollywood Film King Kong and Some Scientific Facts About Apes

King Kong is out with the Oscar-winningFollowing facts may worth reading:
visionary.The story in short can be enumerated inFew animals have sparked the imagination of
a few lines:man as much as the gorilla, the largest of the
A crew of explorers and filmmakers set out toliving primates and the last member of the ape
investigate the myths of legendary creature Kingfamily known to science.The chimpanzees are the
Kong Travelling to Skull Island, they discover aclosest relatives of humans; the next in line are
land unaffected by time as Kong lives withthe gorillas. The Orang-utans are only remotely
dinosaurs that have been hidden and protectedrelated to the other species.The genetic material
from man for centuries. As the crew struggles toof apes is identical to that of humans to a very
survive on the treacherous island, they eventuallylarge degree. Differences are especially small in
capture Kong through his fascination with athe nuclear DNA
beautiful woman. Taken back to New York, itGorillas share 97.7 per cent of our DNA.
may only be a matter of time before KongThey have twenty four pairs of chromosomes
escapes his confines.and humans have twenty three. It has been
Who is the winner? King Kong or the king behindestablished that our chromosome number two is
the Kong? No doubt the winner is the amazingequivalent to two pairs of the chimpanzee's
director Peter Jackson.The giant gorilla was firstchromosomes.There are three subspecies of
made in the celebrated film in 1933 and Petergorillas living in different parts of Africa.* Western
Jackson wanted to re-create it. He has had anLowland Gorilla (gorilla gorilla)* Eastern Lowland
obsession with this dream project. He made theGorilla (gorilla graueri)* Mountain Gorilla (gorilla
Skull Island as the most hellish , tortuous jungle.berengei)The height of male gorillas : 5'6" upright,
On seeing the 24 feet gorilla in the film backed4'6" normal stance.
with super technology ,computer magics, specialFemales 5' upright, 3'6" - 4' normal stance.
effects, one would wonder what would be theNormal weight of male gorillas : 135-225
scientific facts with regard to gorillas, orang-utans.Kilograms.Females 68-112 Kgs.