The questions listed on the Student's Page were given to us by students wanting to know more about gorillas. For each question, a short answer is given. Underneath each answer there is also a website link to follow for more information, an activity to do in the classroom, or both.

What do your students already know - or think they know - about gorillas? We hope you will take some time before getting to our questions and answers to explore this subject with your class. Invite discussion and find out what your students would like to know about gorillas and why they would like to know it. We hope the answers we have supplied here will serve merely as a springboard to other inquiries and activities.

References for the information given on these pages:

• African Primates at Home, Dr. M.K. Holder, Indiana University, http://www.indiana.edu/~primate/primates.html
  
  
• Chen, Xingbin and Hao Chen. Abstract: "The influence of alveolar structures on the torsional strain field in a gorilla corporeal cross-section." Journal of Human Evolution. December, 1998; 35 (6) 611-633.
  
  
• The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International http://www.gorillafund.org
  
  
• The Gorilla Foundation, http://www.gorilla.org
  
  
• Gorilla Haven http://www.gorilla-haven.org
  
  
• National Geographic.com, http://www.nationalgeographic.com/resources/ngo/infocentral/animal/gorilla.html
  
  
• Tuttle, Russell H. "Knuckle-walking and the Evolution of Hominoid Hands." American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 1967; (26) 171-205.
  
  
• "Gorilla" Encyclopaedia Britannica Online. http://search.eb.com/bol/topic?eu=38188&sctn=1