Research Paper On Gorillas

The Gorilla beringei beringei or mountain gorilla, was first discovered on October 17th 1902, by a German officer named Captain Robert von Beringe (Berggorilla and Direkthilfe, 2002). Mountain gorillas play a large role in it’s particular ecosystem through consumption the gorillas control and maintain vegetation that is vital for a healthy environment not only for the primate but also other species that live in the environment as well. Since the discovery of the mountain gorilla much fascination has been drawn toward the species. However, the gentle creature’s population has had a sharp decline from Rwanda’s belief in sumu, poaching, human disease, and unregulated tourism. In efforts to revive the species population from extinction, persistent activism through worldly foundations are helping protect the mountain gorilla species.

A few weeks ago, I spent a lovely Monday afternoon observing two different primates at the Santa Ana Zoo. I got to the zoo around two in the afternoon, and to my surprise, the zoo was decently crowded. The Santa Ana Zoo is smaller in comparison to other zoos like the Los Angeles Zoo, but still had a decent amount of animals there. Covering a small 20 acres of land, I came across two primates that fit perfectly for the purposes of this course project. I chose to observe an endangered ape, the white-handed gibbon, and an endangered new world monkey, the golden-headed lion tamarin.

The theory was that gorillas were just one species, but gradually changed as they spread and adapted to different habitats. Gorillas are non-territorial and

Gentle, peaceful & shy are the words that describe gorillas. Gorillas in the mountains & eastern lowland areas are totally vegetarian & eat leaves, fruits, & stems like bamboo. On the other hand, gorillas in the Western lowlands eat small invertebrates & insects apart from plants. It’s anticipated that approximately 80% of gorilla population’s extinct, because of the destruction of their habitat, humans hunting them down & diseases as a result of Ebola

There are many wild animals in the world are in danger. The mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei) are one of the most threatened species in the world that inherited from monkeys (Macaca Fascicularis) and apes (Hominoidea), which was found in Africa and Arabia about 34-24 millions years ago. Mountain gorillas are Animalia, which phylum is Chordata and class of Mammalia. The mountain gorilla is a subspecies of eastern gorilla, which live in two regions in Africa. There are three countries where mountain gorillas live. They are Uganda, Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo. According to National geographic, there are about 700 mountain gorillas remaining in the earth and half of them live in a Virunga mountains in central Africa. In average, they live about 35 years; the standing height of a mountain gorilla is between 4-6 feet. They’re weight usually between 300-485 pounds and they are bit larger than other type of gorillas. Mountain gorilla usually live in a group and head of their group is called ‘silverback’ that is an adult male who grow a patch of silver hair on their back and hips. However, when dominant silverback die, the whole group face hard time to regroup themselves. Female gorilla usually becomes sexually mature before male gorilla. At the age of 7-8 female gorillas become sexually active, however they started to breed few years later. On the other hand, male gorilla starts

Apes and primates come in all different shapes and sizes. They all exhibit different characteristics and most importantly different behaviors that separate these different primates. The thing that is the most fascinating is really how similar they are to us. The similarities go past structure, similarities can also be seen in their behavior and how they think similar to a rational human being. Gorillas are the biggest primate currently alive on earth and they are also one of the smartest as seen through Koko the gorilla who actually understands english and can effectively use sign language. Gorillas are truly fascinating creatures that exhibit behaviors

Gorillas are apart of the primate family, they are terrestrial because they rather live on the ground than in the trees. Gorillas have a relevance to humans because they are most closely related to us. Gorillas can be categorized into three different subspecies. There’s the mountain gorilla, the western lowland gorilla, and the eastern lowland gorilla. The western lowland gorilla is usually the gorilla you can visit in zoos. This is the smallest subspecies of gorilla who lives mainly in forests in the Central African Republic, Gabon, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, and Nigeria. The eastern lowland gorilla is bigger and lives in Eastern Congo. Supposedly there are no mountain gorillas, which are the third subspecies, held captive. It’s estimated that

Gorilla gorilla gorilla, is better known by its common name, western lowland gorilla (National Geographic Society n.d.). The western lowland gorilla is a subspecies of the Genus Gorilla, within the Suborder Haplorhini (Table 1). G. gorilla gorilla is found in Central to Western Africa in lowlands, swamps, and tropical and subtropical forests (San Diego Zoo Global 2006; World Wildlife Fund n.d.a.).

Western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) are part of the order Primates because they can be distinguished by their highly dexterous hands and feet (Schmidlin et al., 2011). They also have a higher-functioning brain region known as the neocortex, which is a characteristic seen in primates (Kaas, 2012). Additionally, they, like most primates, have a tendency to rely more on vision than their olfactory senses (Myers, 2000).

The gorillas live mainly in coastal West Africa in the Congo, Zaire, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea and Cameroon. Gorillas live in the rain forest. They usually live on the ground but build nest in trees to sleep in. Gorilla troops keep a 15-20 square mile range which often overlaps the range of other troops. There are three different kinds of gorillas. The eastern lowland gorilla the western lowland and the mountain gorilla. They are herbivores and eat only wild celery, roots, tree bark pulp, fruit, stems of many plants and bamboo shoots. They spend nearly half their day eating.

Have you ever wondered about gorillas? A gorilla is a very strong built great ape with a large head and short neck. Gorillas are the largest member of the primate family. Gorillas are quiet, shy, peaceful, and live in central Africa and tropical rainforests. Several thousand years ago, gorillas split from its closest relative the chimpanzees. There are four types of gorillas, being Eastern lowland, Western lowland, mountain, and cross river gorillas. Ecology is how organism interact with one another and the environment. It is the study of relationships between two living organisms.

Females are somewhat different from the males for instance they do not get as big. Females without young and females with young are also quite different, the females without young have an arched back, are skinny, and have an oval face that is moreslender while females with young have a flatter back, are fatter, and have amore circular face. Gorilla babies are also, of course, different, they are small,fat, and have very bushy hair but only weigh 4.5 pounds when they are born.and have eyes that make them hard to resist.. All gorillas share something in common they all have five fingers and five fingernails, they also have fingerprints that resemble a humans and their hands are bigger than ours (Wexo).All gorillas also have a short nose with big nostrils, and they have heavy eyebrow ridges and have no hair on their face, hands, or feet.

Gorilla beringei beringei, more commonly known as the Mountain Gorilla, is one of the most sexually dimorphic species of primates in existence. Sexual dimorphism is a phenotypic difference between males and females of the same species. The prototypical example is for differences in reproductive organs, but sexual dimorphism can affect many different characteristics. In mallard ducks for example, the male’s feathers are colored bright green, on its head in order to help attract the brown headed females. Peacock males, for example, have an illustrious plumage made up of many different colors whilst the female does not. In mountain gorillas, sexual dimorphism has caused a drastic difference in body size between the sexes. The male mountain gorilla,

They help to disperse seeds throughout the forests and create places where seedlings can grow and replenish the forest. This is extremely important to the other animals that share their habitat. This also benefits humans who live in and around the forest and rely on that regrowth to sustain their environments. This basically means that that other animals are dependent upon them. If you don’t have these gorillas to disperse these seeds, the ecosystem will fall apart and will not be at it finest and most. The scientific name for the Eastern Lowland Gorilla is Gorilla beringei graueri. Scientists could potentially bring back this endangered species through a process called cloning. Cloning refers a process where scientists clone every part of their DNA identical. So the organism will be exactly the same. Cloning can happen naturally or it can happen in a laboratory. Artificial cloning began in 1928, when Hilde Mangold injected DNA into an egg. The first endangered animal to be cloned was the Gaur in 2001. Cloning has been used in the past to create whole animals, such as in 1996. Researchers succeeded in cloning the first mammal from a mature cell taken from an adult

On Saturday, the Rwandan government named 24 baby gorillas, as part of its annual Kwita Izina naming ceremony that takes place in Rwanda’s Volcanoes National Park every year.