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