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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.
The eastern lowland gorilla has the widest altitudinal range of any of the gorilla subspecies, being found in mountainous, transitional and lowland tropical forests. One of the most studied eastern lowland gorilla population lives in the highlands of Kahuzi-Biega, where habitats vary between dense primary forests to moderately moist woodland ...
Until recently, gorillas were considered to be a single species, with three subspecies: the western lowland gorilla, the eastern lowland gorilla and the mountain gorilla. [5] [13] There is now agreement that there are two species, each with two subspecies. [14] More recently, a third subspecies has been claimed to exist in one of the species.
There has only been one albino western lowland gorilla ever found in the wild or captivity. Snowflake the gorilla lived in the Barcelona Zoo for 36 years and he was the world’s only albino gorilla.
What they found inside was a little five-month-old animal, identified as ‘gorilla gorilla’ — also known as the Western lowland gorilla. A critically endangered baby gorilla was found at the ...
Dzanga-Sangha Forest Reserve has one of the highest population densities of gorillas in the world, with an estimated 2000 of them living within the reserve's precincts. [6] Since the establishment of the reserve, it has been an important location for research into the western lowland gorillas [12] and forest elephants, in particular. [13]
Western lowland gorillas are the most common species in zoos, including Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium. The average male gorilla stands up to 5.5 feet tall and can weigh between 300 and ...
Among the 136 species of mammals identified in the park, the eastern lowland gorilla is the most prominent. According to a 2008 status report of the DR of Congo, the park had 125 lowland gorillas, a marked reduction from the figure of 600 gorillas of the pre-1990s conflict period, and consequently the species has been inscribed on the ...