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...forest clearing, captured on film by a team of scientists from the Max Planck Institute in Germany and the Wildlife Conservation Society, is one of the only times gorillas have been seen mating face-to-face, rather than face-to-back. "It's an extremely rare behavior," says Thomas Breuer, the primatologist who photographed the pair through a telelens. "We haven't seen this in 13 years of observation. If you look at the photos it's a very nice piece of action...
...have, and it is. But what does the act mean? Is it a one-off, or the start of a gorilla sexual revolution? Breuer is hesitant to draw any conclusions, noting that scientists observe just a sliver of the life of wild gorillas, but he speculates that face-to-face mating (also known as "ventro-ventral copulation," for the Latinists out there) might engender a deeper relationship between the silverback male, George, and Leah, the female. After the mating was finished (roughly 2 mins., about par for the course for your average silverback), Breuer even observed George holding Leah...
That might be unlikely - male gorillas, after all, are happily polygynous, mating with multiple females in their group. (It's good to be the silverback.) But there might just be something special about Leah. Breuer had earlier observed Leah (named inexactly after Princess Leia of Star Wars) using a crude tool - another first - testing out the depth of a pond with a long stick, rather than simply diving in. The very humanness of her experimentation struck him. "That observation was so interesting," says Breuer. "Very often they find solutions to problems in the same way as you or I would...
...Morgan, famous for his hysterical portrayal of Brian Fellow on SNL, may not have wowed audiences with his own Tracy Morgan Show, but this Maya Angelou impersonator has proved he’s always good for a laugh. Hey, at least he’ll be better than Jim Breuer. Friday, Jan. 19 8 p.m. and 10:15 p.m, ($27), Saturday Jan. 20 10:45 p.m. ($32), Sunday Jan. 21 7 p.m. ($25) Faneuil Hall, 245 Quincy Market Building, Boston 4)Chocolate Train Splurge on a sweet historical tour of Boston on the Boston Chocolate Trolley Tour that kicks...
...nearly $100 per rain- and mud-soaked attendee. Nor was Havana on the Harbor much fun; $2,500 was spent on 40 students—many of whom later wanted their money back. The Snoop Dogg fiasco wasted more than $7,000 and the poorly-attended Jim Breuer show blew through about twice that. Then, of course, there’s Wyclef Jean, who didn’t play to the tune of about $30,000.The purpose of this column, however, is not to simply list these wasteful expenditures as so many have done before. Hallow calls for greater accountability...