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Mountain gorillas live in large family groups headed up by a dominant male gorilla known as a silverback due to the saddle of silver hair on the back of some of the older males.
Titus (24 August 1974 – 14 September 2009) was a silverback mountain gorilla of the Virunga Mountains, observed by researchers almost continuously over his entire life. He was the subject of the 2008 PBS Nature/BBC Natural World documentary film Titus: The Gorilla King.
Samson (1949–1981) was a male silverback western lowland gorilla given to the Washington Park Zoo in Milwaukee Wisconsin by the Pabst Brewing Company. Samson reached a weight of 652 lb (296 kg) and lived alone in a glass enclosure. He often hit the windows in frustration and managed to break the glass four times.
Willie B. (c. 1957 – February 2, 2000) was a western lowland gorilla who lived at the Zoo of Atlanta for 39 years, from 1961 until his death on February 2, 2000. [1] He was named after the former mayor of Atlanta, William Berry Hartsfield. Willie B. was kept in isolation for 27 years with only a television and a tire swing to keep him company.
Azizi will lead the zoo's western lowland gorilla family group, which has been without a silverback since Oliver died in September. A 20-year-old silverback gorilla has arrived at the Milwaukee ...
Winston, a beloved 52-year-old western lowland gorilla and one of the oldest silverbacks in the world, died Saturday at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, officials announced.. The elderly gorilla had ...
San Diego Zoo Gorilla Factsheet – features a video and photos; World Wildlife Fund: Gorillas – conservation, facts and photos (archived 16 October 2004) Gorilla protection – Gorilla conservation (archived 29 November 2010) Welcome to the Year of the Gorilla 2009 Archived 18 March 2019 at the Wayback Machine
Instead of decreasing, the number of mountain gorillas — a subspecies of eastern gorillas — has risen from 680 a decade ago to just over 1,000 today. The population is split between two ...