Mountain Gorilla
Mountain Gorilla PhotoMountain gorillas are found in only three locations on Earth: the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest in Uganda, and the Virunga Volcanoes on the borders of Rwanda, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Type: Mammal Diet: Omnivore Average life span in the wild: 35 years Size: Standing height, ...
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Mountain gorillas eat large amounts of vegetation and spend about 30 percent of each day foraging for food. They consume roots, leaves, stems of herbs, vines, bark from trees, shrub-sized plants, and bamboo shoots.
Mountain gorillas have a slow rate of reproduction. Females give birth for the first time at about age 10 and will have more offspring every three or four years. A male begins to breed between 12 and 15 years, when he is in charge of his own group.
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Common Name: Mountain gorilla
Scientific Name: Gorilla beringei beringei
Location: Central Africa ...
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Being top of the gorilla heap doesn't mean a new leader gets everything he wants.
Being top of the gorilla heap doesn't mean a new leader gets everything he wants.
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Their habitat is shrinking, and fewer than 700 remain
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The Mountain gorillas live in Rwanda and in the mountain forests of Uganda.
Mountain gorilla (Gorilla beringei beringei), Volcanoes NP, Virunga mountains, Rwanda.
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Mountain gorillas, the rarest of the subspecies, hang on in mountain forests (up to 11,000 feet) at the borders of Rwanda, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Mountain Gorilla (Gorilla beringei beringei)
Eastern Lowland Gorilla (Gorilla beringei graueri)
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The mountain gorilla is the largest of the gorilla subspecies. It inhabits a number of isolated areas on the forested mountain slopes of eastern Zaire and parts of Uganda and Rwanda.
The mountain gorilla occurs mainly within national parks and in some areas is protected by armed guards to prevent poaching (7).
The mountain gorilla is under the greatest threat with fewer than 650 existing in the wild. Major efforts by various conservation organisations to save this gorilla in its natural habitat began in 1978, and the Mountain Gorilla Project was developed.
The Cross River gorilla of the Nigeria-Cameroon border region and the mountain gorilla of Rwanda, Congo (Kinshasa), and Uganda each number in the hundreds and are closest to extinction.
Over half of the world's pitifully small remaining population of wild mountain gorillas live in the wonderfully-named Bwindi Impenetrable Forest in the southeastern corner of Uganda.
Eastern gorillas are darker colored than Western gorillas, with Mountain gorilla being the darkest of all. Mountain gorillas also have the thickest hair. The Western lowland gorilla can be brown or grayish with a reddish forehead.
Of the three subspecies of gorillas, the mountain gorilla is the rarest and the western lowland gorilla is the most common type found in zoos. Male gorillas are famous for their terrifying chest-beating displays.
There are the Western Lowland, the Eastern Loland and the Mountain Gorillas. Their first sighting was in the 5th century BC by a Roman Explorer to Africa. The head male in the gorilla family is the silverback or the undisputed leader.
The eastern gorilla subspecies are the mountain gorilla (Gorilla beringei beringei) and the eastern lowland gorilla (Gorilla beringei graueri).
There are about 90,000 western lowland gorillas in the wild. Some other gorilla species, like the mountain gorilla found in Congo, Rwanda, and Uganda are much rarer. Gorillas are threatened bu hunting and deforestation.
As their names suggest, western lowland gorillas live at lower altitudes, while their close relatives, mountain gorillas, live at higher altitudes in the mountains.
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That’s the mountain gorilla (one of the subspecies of eastern gorilla).
Perhaps surprisingly, the habits of western lowland gorillas are less well known that those of eastern gorillas, even though the western type is more numerous.
[4] Primates range in size from the Madame Berthe's Mouse Lemur, which weighs only 30 grams (1.1 oz) to the Mountain Gorilla weighing 200 kilograms (440 lb).
Most gorillas live in the hot, lowland forests of west and central Africa, but a subspecies called the mountain gorilla lives in a very different habitat.
 See also: Gorilla, Chimpanzee, Chimp, Western lowland gorilla, Orangutan
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