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The oldest gorilla on record is the Philadelphia Zoo's Massa, who lived to be 54.

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Almost all gorillas share the same blood type, B, and have individual fingerprints, like humans.

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Gorillas are apes in the superfamily Hominoidea and the family Hominidae known also as the "great apes" and comprising humans, the gorillas, chimpanzees, and orangutans.

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Gorillas use sticks and rocks to thwart predators (Beck 1980).

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The proprietor was Pasqua Rosйe, the Ragusan (Italian city) servant of a trader in Turkish goods named Daniel Edwards, who imported the coffee and assisted Rosйe in setting up the establishment.

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Gorillas are closely related to humans and are considered to be highly intelligent.

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The gorilla, the largest of the living primates is a ground-dwelling herbivore that inhabits limited regions of forest in central Africa.

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Gorillas live to be 30 to 50 years old.

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Primatologists now generally divide gorillas into two species, the Western Gorilla (Gorilla gorilla) and the Eastern Gorilla (Gorilla Beringei), with at least two subspecies for each.

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A silverback is an adult male gorilla, typically more than 12 years old and named for the distinctive patch of silver hair on his back.

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During the expedition they saw several examples of gorillas using tools in the wild.

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Gorillas' facial structure is described as prognathous; that is, their mandible, or lower jaw, protrudes further out than the maxilla, upper jaw.

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The American physician and missionary Thomas Staughton Savage first described the Western Gorilla (he called it Troglodytes gorilla) in 1847 from specimens obtained in Liberia.

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Due to their diet of plant life, gorillas often have bloated stomachs.

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A third subspecies for one of the Eastern Gorilla is also claimed.

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A population of several hundred gorillas in the Odzala National Park, Republic of Congo was essentially wiped out in 2004 by the Ebola virus (Caillaud 2006).

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Both species of gorilla are endangered, and have been subject to intense poaching.

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Threats to gorilla survival include habitat destruction and the bushmeat trade.

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A female gorilla in the Nouabalй-Ndoki National Park in the Republic of Congo was recorded using a stick as if to gauge the depth of water while crossing a swamp.

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Gorilla DNA is 98 percent identical to that of humans, making them the second closest living relative to humans, after the two chimpanzee species (Chen 2001).

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Primatologists continue to explore the relationships between various gorilla populations (Groves 2002).

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The gorilla occurs in two species, the western gorilla and the eastern gorilla.

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Scientists for decades divided gorillas into three species: the Western Lowland Gorilla, the Eastern Lowland Gorilla, and the Mountain Gorilla.

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Gorillas are mainly vegetarian, eating fruits, leaves, and shoots, but they also eat insects.

The gorilla's only known enemies are leopards and humans. Crocodiles are potentially dangerous to lowland gorillas. In western Africa, gorillas are commonly hunted for meat or in retaliation for crop raiding, but in eastern Africa they have been the victims of snares and traps set for antelope and other animals.

Gorillas stick to a mainly vegetarian diet, feeding on stems, bamboo shoots and fruits. Western lowland gorillas, however, also have an appetite for termites and ants, and break open termite nests to eat the larvae.

The average gorilla is approximately six to 15 times as strong (depending on who you ask). All those techniques that we rely on to defeat stronger opponents aren't going to be enough to overcome that much strength differential: You will not be arm-barring a gorilla, for instance, even if you're Rickson Gracie.Mar 21, 2013

If its about the cost, please note that, Gorilla permits within Rwanda were recently increased up to $1500 per individual and then in Uganda they go each for USD 600. The permit offers you one hour with the mountain gorillas in a group of 8 people.

In absolute terms, a 1,500 lb grizzly bear is 40-times stronger than the average man, and 4-times stronger than a 500 lb silverback gorilla. ... The grizzly boar would ruin the silverback gorilla in a complete no-contest. Even if a grizzly bear is the same weight as a gorilla, it will still have the strength advantage.

Gorillas are ground-dwelling and live in groups of 6-12 with the oldest and largest silverback leading a family of females, their young and younger males called blackbacks. The silverback makes the decisions on when his group wakes up, eats, moves and rests for the night.

Gorillas stick to a mainly vegetarian diet, feeding on stems, bamboo shoots and fruits. Western lowland gorillas, however, also have an appetite for termites and ants, and break open termite nests to eat the larvae.

Koko lives at The Gorilla Foundation in Woodside, California, which is in the Santa Cruz Mountains about 35 miles south of San Francisco. She has her own specially equipped trailer and two outdoor play areas. Koko, like all gorillas, builds a nest each night to sleep in.

Behavior. Gorillas are non-territorial and live in groups called troops that generally consist of 1 to 4 adult males (called silverbacks), some juvenile males (called black backs), several adult females and young.

Reproduction. Female gorillas are sexually mature at around 7 to 8 years of age. However, they do not usually reproduce until they are 10 years old. Males mature later than the females and are rarely strong and dominant enough to reproduce before 15 to 20 years of age.

After a pregnancy that lasts on average 257 days (humans: 265 days), gorillas usually give birth in less than half an hour and the mother does not seem to feel great pain. However, difficult births do occur and can take up to three days.

Female gorillas are pregnant for about 8 to 9.5 months and have about 3 babies in their lifetime. Newborn gorillas weigh only about 3-4 pounds (1.4 to 1.8 kg) at birth (about half the weight of a newborn human). Female gorillas carefully nurture their young.

Once they have reached an age of approximately 10 years, female mountain gorillas give birth to one baby every 4 years. ... One mountain gorilla mother holds the record with six surviving offspring. Another female gave birth to eight babies, but only two of them reached sexual maturity.

The average gorilla is approximately six to 15 times as strong (depending on who you ask). All those techniques that we rely on to defeat stronger opponents aren't going to be enough to overcome that much strength differential: You will not be arm-barring a gorilla, for instance, even if you're Rickson Gracie.Mar 21, 2013

On the animal channel, it stated that a large male silverback gorilla has the strength to press over 4600 pounds.Aug 4, 2010

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