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Western gorillas are long-lived and may survive for as long as 40 years in the wild. A group's home range may be as large as 30 km 2 (12 sq mi), but is not actively defended. Wild western gorillas are known to use tools. [10] Western gorillas' diets are high in fiber, including leaves, stems, fruit, piths, flowers, bark, invertebrates, and soil.
Mountain gorillas are the most severely endangered, with an estimated population of about 880 left in the wild and none in zoos. [14] [98] Threats to gorilla survival include habitat destruction and poaching for the bushmeat trade. Gorillas are closely related to humans, and are susceptible to diseases that humans also get infected by.
Articles relating to the Gorillas, herbivorous, predominantly ground-dwelling great apes that inhabit the tropical forests of equatorial Africa.The genus Gorilla is divided into two species: the eastern gorilla and the western gorilla, and either four or five subspecies.
The western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) is one of two Critically Endangered subspecies of the western gorilla (Gorilla gorilla) that lives in montane, primary and secondary forest and lowland swampland in central Africa in Angola (Cabinda Province), Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon.
Colo (December 22, 1956 – January 17, 2017) was a western gorilla widely known as the first gorilla to be born in captivity anywhere in the world and the oldest known gorilla in the world in 2017.
The Cross River gorilla (Gorilla gorilla diehli) is a critically endangered subspecies of the western gorilla (Gorilla gorilla).It was named a new species in 1904 by Paul Matschie, a mammalian taxonomist working at the Humboldt University Zoological Museum in Berlin, but its populations were not systematically surveyed until 1987.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 20 December 2024. Subspecies of the eastern gorilla Mountain gorilla Male mountain gorilla Female and baby mountain gorillas Conservation status Endangered (IUCN 3.1) CITES Appendix I (CITES) Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Primates ...
The African bush elephant (foreground), Earth's largest extant land animal, and the Masai ostrich (background), one of Earth's largest extant birds. In zoology, megafauna (from Greek μέγας megas "large" and Neo-Latin fauna "animal life") are large animals.