western lowland gorilla

primate
Also known as: Gorilla gorilla gorilla

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discovery in Republic of the Congo

  • species of apes
    In primate: Distribution and abundance

    The estimated number of western lowland gorillas (G. gorilla gorilla), a species thought to be critically endangered, increased when a population of more than 100,000 was discovered in 2008 in the swamps of the Lac Télé Community Reserve in the Republic of the Congo.

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gorillas

  • mountain gorilla (Gorilla gorilla beringei)
    In gorilla

    …up of two subspecies: the western lowland gorilla (G. gorilla gorilla), which inhabits the lowland rainforests from Cameroon to the Congo River, and the Cross River gorilla (G. gorilla diehli), which inhabits a small forested region along the Cross River separating Nigeria from Cameroon. The eastern gorilla (G. beringei) is…

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