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Science 24 March 2006:
Vol. 311. no. 5768, p. 1714
DOI: 10.1126/science.1125822
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MOVIES: PRIMATOLOGY:
The Greatest of Apes

Guy Cowlishaw

King Kong
by Peter Jackson
Universal Pictures, Universal City, CA, 2005. 187 minutes. www.kingkongmovie.com
This remake of the classic 1933 film, expanded to epic proportions, offers a more humanized giant gorilla and a fable about wild nature and our destructive exploitation of it.
The reviewer is at the Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, Regent's Park, London NW1 4RY, UK. E-mail: guy.cowlishaw{at}ioz.ac.uk

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