Hollywood Film King Kong and Some Scientific Facts About Apes

King Kong is out with the Oscar-winning visionary.

The story in short can be enumerated in a few lines: A crew of explorers and filmmakers set out to investigate the myths of legendary creature King Kong Travelling to Skull Island, they discover a land unaffected by time as Kong lives with dinosaurs that have been hidden and protected from man for centuries. As the crew struggles to survive on the treacherous island, they eventually capture Kong through his fascination with a beautiful woman. Taken back to New York, it may only be a matter of time before Kong escapes his confines. Who is the winner? King Kong or the king behind the Kong? No doubt the winner is the amazing director Peter Jackson.

The giant gorilla was first made in the celebrated film in 1933 and Peter Jackson wanted to re-create it. He has had an obsession with this dream project. He made the Skull Island as the most hellish , tortuous jungle. On seeing the 24 feet gorilla in the film backed with super technology ,computer magics, special effects, one would wonder what would be the scientific facts with regard to gorillas, orang-utans. Following facts may worth reading: Few animals have sparked the imagination of man as much as the gorilla, the largest of the living primates and the last member of the ape family known to science.

The chimpanzees are the closest relatives of humans; the next in line are the gorillas. The Orang-utans are only remotely related to the other species.

The genetic material of apes is identical to that of humans to a very large degree. Differences are especially small in the nuclear DNA Gorillas share 97.7 per cent of our DNA. They have twenty four pairs of chromosomes and humans have twenty three. It has been established that our chromosome number two is equivalent to two pairs of the chimpanzee's chromosomes.

There are three subspecies of gorillas living in different parts of Africa.


* Western Lowland Gorilla (gorilla gorilla)


* Eastern Lowland Gorilla (gorilla graueri)


* Mountain Gorilla (gorilla berengei)

The height of male gorillas : 5'6" upright, 4'6" normal stance. Females 5' upright, 3'6" - 4' normal stance. Normal weight of male gorillas : 135-225 Kilograms.

Females 68-112 Kgs.

Like all great apes, gorillas