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Other albino (or white-furred) gorillas similar in appearance to Snowflake have appeared in different media. Prior to the birth of Snowflake, the film Son of Kong featured King Kong 's son, which was an albino gorilla that was twice the height of a human and was named "Little Kong".
Western gorillas live in both lowland swamp forests and montane forests, at elevations ranging from sea level to 1,600 m (5,200 ft). [39] Western lowland gorillas live in swamp and lowland forests ranging up to 1,600 m (5,200 ft), and Cross River gorillas live in low-lying and submontane forests ranging from 150–1,600 m (490–5,250 ft).
Western lowland gorillas primarily live in rainforest, swamp forest, brush, secondary vegetation, clearing and forest edges, abandoned farming fields and riverine forest. They live in primary and secondary lowland tropical forest at elevations that extend from sea level up to 1,300 m (4,300 ft). The average amount of rainfall in the areas where ...
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.
About a quarter of Africa's gorillas live in Gabon. Other large mammals include the hippopotamus , forest buffalo, bongo and red river hog . A variety of monkeys occur, including the endemic sun-tailed monkey , and the near-endemic mandrill and white-collared mangabey (here near-endemic meaning most of the individuals of these species are in ...
Colo and her progeny, five of whom are still held at the Columbus Zoo, comprised about one-third of the Zoo's 17 captive gorillas as of 2015. [ 12 ] Colo became the oldest living gorilla in captivity following the death of 55-year-old Jenny in September 2008. [ 13 ]
Marine invertebrates are invertebrate animals that live in marine habitats, and make up most of the macroscopic life in the oceans. It is a polyphyletic blanket term that contains all marine animals except the marine vertebrates , including the non- vertebrate members of the phylum Chordata such as lancelets , sea squirts and salps .
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.