Gorilla walks upright at the Port Lympne Wild Animal Park in Kent, England

The gorilla, Ambam, at the Port Lympne Wild Animal Park in Kent, England has become quite an attraction.  The 21 year old gorilla tips the scales at a mere 485 pounds. There are now several youtube videos of Ambam walking upright like a human.  Phil Ridges, the zoo keeper, stated several reasons for this.  Other family members have sometimes walked and stand in the same way. His father walked upright when he had handfuls of food to carry. Zoo officials think maybe Ambam would walk upright to get a height advantage to look over the wall when the keepers came to feed him.

There are numerous youtube videos of Ambam walking upright and dancing and wading in a pool.  Exactly what I imagined would happen came true.  A story like this would certainly bring out all the evolutionist.  They would jump on the chance to captilize on this story.  I opened the comments, and as expected, there they were; the evolutionist saying, "I told you so". 

Ambam isn't the first to walk like a human but does so more often.  There have been many that do but tend to do so very rarely. He is a member of a critically engangered species of gorilla.

This is just a story that went quickly viral on the internet and gave opportunities for people to have something else controversial and humerous to post comments about. It just doesn't take much to stir people up.  Walk on Ambam, you are a star for the day.