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Gorillas Country *. Gorillas typically live in the lowland tropical rainforests of Central Africa, although some subspecies are found in montane rainforest (between 1,500 and 3,500 meters) and in bamboo forest (between 2,500 to 3,000 meters).
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Basic Facts About Gorillas Closely linked by DNA, gorillas (family Hominidae) are one of the four species of great apes that are the closest living relatives of humans – the other three are chimpanzees, bonobos and orangutans.here are four subspecies of gorillas: the eastern lowland or Grauer’s gorilla (Gorilla beringei graueri); the mountain gorilla (Gorilla beringei beringei); the western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla); and the Cross River gorilla (Gorilla gorilla diehl).
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Primate With the exception of humans, who inhabit every continent, most primates live in tropical or subtropical regions of the Americas, Africa and Asia. They range in size from Madame Berthe's mouse lemur, which weighs only 30 g (1 oz), to the eastern gorilla, weighing over 200 kg (440 lb).n early close primate relative known from abundant remains is the Late Paleocene Plesiadapis, circa 55–58 million years old. Molecular clock studies suggest that the primate branch may be even older, originating near the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary or around 63-74 mya.
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About Apes There are four types of great apes: gorillas (Africa), bonobos (Africa), orangutans (SE Asia), and chimpanzees (Africa). Chimpanzees are great apes that live in the tropical rain forests of Africa from Sudan and Tanzania in the East to Senegal and Angola in the West. Democratic Republic of the Congo has the largest population, although chimpanzees have become extinct in some areas.
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- 1 Eastern lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla graueri) is slightly larger in size weighing up to 220 kg (484 lb) and darker in coloration than the western lowland gorilla. They live in the rainforests of central Africa.  Mountain gorilla (Gorilla gorilla beringei) is the largest and rarest of all three subspecies. Adult males may weigh over 227 kg (500 lb.) They are found at high elevations of the Virunga Volcano range that separates Zaire from Rwanda and Uganda.
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Mountain gorilla Eastern gorilla range. The best known of the eastern gorillas, the mountain gorilla, is found in two isolated populations. One is in the Virunga Volcanoes region, situated on the borders of Rwanda, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The other occurs in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in southwestern Uganda .
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Endangered Gorillas The endangered mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei) are never and will never will be found in any zoo in the whole world as they can’t survive while caged. These apes can only be seen in Africa; Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Rwanda.
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Gorilla Diet These gorillas live in tropical forests below 8,000 feet in elevation in the Democratic Republic of Congo. This habitat offers a wide variety of food material. This group will eat more than 100 kinds of plants. While plants make up the largest part of their diet, when fruit is available it accounts for 25 percent of the eastern lowland gorilla's diet.
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Mountain Gorilla The mountain gorilla’s habitat is limited to protected national parks in two regions of Africa. One group of gorillas lives in the Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Uganda. The other group is spread over three national parks in the Virungas mountain region of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, and Rwanda.ot only are mountain gorillas threatened by loss of habitat due to human encroachment, they have also become victims of human violence. As civil war rages in Africa, efforts to conserve mountain gorilla populations have been curtailed. Mountain gorillas have also been killed or captured by poachers.
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- Mountain gorillas are found in 3 countries in Africa: Rwanda, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo(DR Congo). The gorillas live in a tiny area where these countries' borders meet, which is on the western edge of the East African Rift Valley. Their habitat is only about 780 sq km.
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Earth News Western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) are one of two subspecies of Western gorilla, the other being the Cross River gorilla (Gorilla gorilla diehli).
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Ebola Killing Thousands of Gorillas, Study Says Ebola is moving at a rate of around 31 miles (50 kilometers) per year in western and central Africa, experts say. Most of the area's remaining gorillas live within about 124 miles (200 kilometers) of the current outbreak.
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Gorilla gorilla western gorilla (Also: western lowland gorilla) Western or lowland gorillas inhabit the forests of equatorial Africa from the western lowlands near the Cameroon coast through the Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Nigeria, Republic of Congo, Angola, and possibly the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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- Apes (Hominoidea) are a branch of Old World tailless anthropoid primates native to Africa and Southeast Asia. They are the sister group of Old World monkeys, together forming the catarrhine clade.
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- The approximate ranges where each of the subspecies lives are shown on the map of Central Africa. The eastern and western groups of gorillas are widely separated in location, but so similar in form that they must have come from a single parent population in the not too distant past.
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- All three gorilla subspecies are listed as endangered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and by the Convention on International Trade for Endangered Species. There are currently about 50,000 western lowland gorillas living in the wild in West Central Africa. This gorilla is also the type most often seen in zoos. The eastern lowland gorilla population has declined significantly in recent decades. An estimated 5,000-15,000 lived in the eastern Congolese rainforest around 1960. Today only about 2,500 remain in the wild, and only a few dozen live in the world's zoos.
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-   Mountain Gorillas live in the Virunga Mountains of East Central Africa. The mountain gorilla's habitat is the tropical forest, or jungle.  www.iwrc-online.org/kids … /Facts/Mammals/m_gorilla.htm - 13k.3 people found this useful.hare to: 1  Pictures of Wild Gorillas in Africa The population of gorillas in Africa has dwindled to the point that the species is considered endangered.
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Introduction There are two recognized gorilla species the Eastern Gorilla and Western Gorilla, defined by the areas in Africa which they inhabit. Within these classifications are four subspecies including the Eastern Lowland Gorilla, Mountain Gorilla, Cross River Gorilla and Western Lowland Gorilla.
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What Are the Different Types of Gorilla? All of these types, or subspecies, are native to the African continent. Gorillas are an endangered species, with only one of the subspecies, the western lowland, having a significant population. Exact counts of gorilla populations are difficult as the shy apes live in secluded tropical and subtropical forests.
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Western lowland gorilla The western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) is one of two subspecies of the western gorilla (Gorilla gorilla) that lives in montane, primary and secondary forests and lowland swamps in central Africa in Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon.
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- Mountain Gorilla. You have to take a special safari to see the mountain Gorilla because they are so rare and live in a relatively tiny area of East Africa. There are only around 720 mountain gorillas left on earth and when you opt to see them, you are also helping their survival.
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Gorilla Although their range covers a small percentage of Africa, gorillas cover a wide range of elevations. The mountain gorilla inhabits the Albertine Rift montane cloud forests of the Virunga Volcanoes, ranging in altitude from 2,200–4,300 metres (7,200–14,100 ft).
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Western lowland gorilla Gorillas are the largest of the great apes, but the western lowland gorilla is the smallest and least endangered of the subspecies. Native to the Congo Basin, the western lowland gorilla is a quiet, peaceful and non-aggressive animal threatened by disease and poaching.
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- The world’s remaining mountain gorillas live in three countries spanning four national parks—Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Mgahinga Gorilla National Park, Volcanoes National Park, and Virunga National Park. Tags: DRC, Rwanda, Uganda, Virunga, West/Central Africa View Africa | Habitat. Physical Characteristics.
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- Western Lowland GorillaGorilla gorilla gorilla : Location and Habitat. Western lowland gorillas are located in the forests, swamps and tropical rainforests of west-central Africa. 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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Earth News Western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) are one of two subspecies of Western gorilla, the other being the Cross River gorilla (Gorilla gorilla diehli). Western lowland gorillas are considered to be critically endangered, as their population has fallen by more than 80% in three generations.