Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Silverback gorilla. The silverback is the centre of the troop's attention, making all the decisions, mediating conflicts, determining the movements of the group, leading the others to feeding sites, and taking responsibility for the safety and well-being of the troop.
A silverback is an adult male gorilla. The Silverback gorilla is known for its silver - back. It commonly known as the king of the jungle since it take head of the gorilla family and ensures optimal decision-making, which in return rewards a great deal of security to the mountain gorilla families. Silverback may also refer to:
Azizi will lead the zoo's western lowland gorilla family group, which has been without a silverback since Oliver died in September.
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.
Winston, a beloved and ailing gorilla believed to have been the second-oldest in a U.S. zoo, ... Ramses, a silverback that turned 53 this year, currently lives at the Fort Worth Zoo in Texas.
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 gorillas seen ...
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.
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.