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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.
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.
Gorilla remains have been found in leopard scat, but this may be the result of scavenging. [47] When the group is attacked by humans, leopards, or other gorillas, an individual silverback will protect the group, even at the cost of his own life. [48] Gorillas do not appear to directly compete with chimpanzees in areas where they overlap.
Mefou Park (French: Parc de la Méfou), also known as Mefou Wildlife Sanctuary and Mfou Reserve, is a primate sanctuary in the forested area of Mfou in Cameroon.Within it, Mefou Primate Park [1] is used as a shelter for primates that are native to Africa such as various Old World monkeys, chimpanzees and Western lowland gorillas.
Azizi, a 20-year-old silverback male western lowland gorilla, arrived at the Milwaukee County Zoo on Jan. 10. He has spent the past month acclimating to his new environment and getting acquainted ...
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 ...
Western lowland gorilla: The zoo's silverback gorilla, nicknamed Chato by his handlers, escaped his enclosure once. Gorillas have reproduced twice in the Guadalajara Zoo. He passed away in 2009. Baird's tapir: One of the zoo's tapirs, Norton, was used by Mel Gibson in the movie Apocalypto for the tapir hunt sequence at the beginning of the film ...
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 ...