NEWS-GORILLAS MISTAKE AMERICAN TOURIST FOR ONE OF THEIR OWN! (WITH VIDEO!)

Gorillas mistake American tourist for one of their own

 

Check out this amazing video. An American tourist, identified only as "John," was on a gorilla-watching tour in Uganda's Bwindi Inpenetrable National Park earlier this month, when an adult female and her babies wandered into the Sanctuary Gorilla Forest Camp where he was staying.
The gorillas appear to be grooming him, as a fellow tourist videotapes the encounter.
"The silverback is just behind you. He's sitting a meter behind you and [there are] three babies squashed between him and you. The female's just behind you to your right," the friend is heard saying. "Tell me what you're feeling now, John."
"I just feel like one of the gang," John says.
After several minutes, the troupe moves on.
Park rangers say encounters such as this are rare.

SONG - FROM A DISTANCE (With Video) - MountainWings Moment

From A Distance
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From a distance the world looks blue and green
And the snow-capped mountains white
From a distance the ocean meets the stream
And the eagle takes to flight

From a distance there is harmony
And it echoes through the land
It's the voice of hope
It's the voice of peace
It's the voice of every man

From a distance we all have enough
And no one is in need
And there are no guns, no bombs and no disease
No hungry mouths to feed

From a distance we are instruments
Marching in a common land
Playing songs of hope
Playing songs of peace
They're the songs of every man

God is watching us
God is watching us
God is watching us from a distance

From a distance you look like my friend
Even though we are at war
From a distance I just cannot comprehend
What all this fighting is for

From a distance there is harmony
And it echoes through the land
And it's the hope of hope
It's the love of love
It's the heart of every man (every man)
It's the hope of hope
It's the love of love
This is the song of every man

And God is watching us
God is watching us

God is watching us from a distance
Oh, God is watching us
God is watching
God is watching us from a distance


from the song “From A Distance”
Written by Julie Gold, sung by Bette Midler

NEWS - GORILLA EYES SURGERY MAKES DALLAS DOC FEEL SENSE OF HIGHTENED RESPONIBILITY

Friday, April 24, 2009
Gorilla eye surgery makes Dallas doc feel sense of heightened responsibility

by PegNews wire

... as opposed to when he's working on mere humans.

Timbo the gorilla is the eldest of the great apes at the Dallas Zoo (she's 47). She was having trouble seeing, due to cataracts. So zookeepers called in Dallas eye doc R. Wayne Bowman to perform radical eye surgery on the beast, and the results have been peachy-keen, thanks very much.

According to the good doctor, he felt "a greater sense of responsibility" when operating on Timbo than when performing a similar procedure on a human.