Did you know that apes are not the same as monkeys?
Monkeys have tails but Apes do not!
: 20th Century Fox is releasing a remake of the classic "Planet of the Apes" directed by Tim Burton on July 27. They recently purchased about 20 of Axtell's Amazing Apes to use in the movie's spaceship laboratory! Release date is July 27th 2001.More.
These sounds were made by Steve Axtell.
See if you can copy them too!
Click to hear Relaxed hooting sound (125k)
Click to hear Angry or Nervous screaming (39k)
Be patient as the sound files need to download.
However if the above files don't play automatically,copy the file to your hard drive and play it in Windows Media Player.
Thank you Steve, for helping us with our project, 20th Century Fox's "Planet of the Apes", directed by Tim Burton. Your products look beautiful and work wonderfully as realistic apes in the cages of our spaceship laboratory. You are a pleasure to work with and your products are the finest available. I am so happy I found you and look forward to working with you again in the future.
Thank you. David Saltzman
Assistant Property Master 20th Century Fox "The Planet of the Apes"
The Great Apes are Endangered Animals.
Please learn more about them at these exciting Web sites:
Chimpanzees
Jane Goodall Foundation
IDA Africa (In Defense of Animals)
Gorillas
There are probably less than 650 Mountain Gorillas left in the world!
Great Faces of Gorillas
Paintings by Chisaso Abe
The Gorilla Foundation
featuring Koko the signing Gorilla
Gorillas
Gorilla Help Site
Gorilla Haven Home Page
Les gorilles / Gorillas (french)
Orangutans
Orangutans.com
Help Save the Endangered Apes
Other Primate related sites
his family studied live apes.
Here Steve sculpts the head
of the Chimpanzee
Here's a photo taken at the Singapore Zoo. Koko the chimp was convinced that I had brought him a playmate...his reaction was amazing, confounded his trainer too!
Ian Thom
London, UK
February 6, 2001
PITTSBURGH--Zookeepers in Pittsburgh are trying to figure out how a gorilla got loose and managed to make a pig of herself by wolfing down muffins, cherry pastries and soda pop at a concession area normally reserved for humans.
About 250 people cowered inside nearby buildings at the Pittsburgh Zoo & Aquarium for 45 minutes, after the 150-pound female gorilla escaped from an outdoor exhibit by crossing a wide moat and scaling a 14-foot wall to freedom.
The animal, which is only 3 1/2 feet tall and is not considered a public danger, quickly found her way to the zoo's outdoor concession area Sunday afternoon and began digging through overflowing trash cans.
"She seemed to especially like the Orange Slice" soda pop, Barbara Baker, the zoo president and chief executive, told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Zookeepers finally lured her into a women's restroom, where they injected her with a tranquilizer.
No one was ever in danger from the unnamed gorilla, the first to escape from the zoo's decade-old Tropical Forest Complex and make it to what one zookeeper described as "the wrong side of the monkey house."
Members of the zoo's Animal Escape Team believe the animal may have climbed to freedom on a bamboo stalk that had fallen into a waterless moat which surrounds the gorilla exhibit.
The gorilla was later reported to be in good shape, though zookeepers feared she may experience some nausea as a result of the anesthesia and the junk food, a drastic change from her diet of fruit and monkey chow.
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