![]() ![]() ![]() Are found on the slopes of three of dormant volcanoes that is Karisimbi, Mikeno and Visoke.The vegetation is totally dense at the bottom of the mountains thus turning onto higher elevation and the forested areas which inhabits the mountain gorillas are often cloudy, misty and cold. Mountain gorillas are inhabitant of the Albertine Rift montane cloud forest, including the Virunga Volcanoes ranging in altitude from 2,200 – 4,300 meters. The tallest silverback measures 1.95meter tall with an arm span of 2.7meter with a chest of 1.98meter and a weight of 219kilogram. ![]() Their chests are more powerful which attach to the lower jaw.Īdult females also have these crests but are less pronounced.Īdult male mountain gorillas are called silverbacks when a saddle of gray develops on their backs with age. Eastern Lowland Gorilla Trekking in CongoĪdult male gorillas have more pronounced bony crests on the top and back of their skulls and their heads a more conical shape. They are smaller than the eastern lowland gorillas and other subspecies of eastern gorillas. They have a weight of 120 -191 kilometer.įemale Mountain gorillas are smaller with a weight of 70 to 98 kilometers. Male Mountain gorillas has height of 161-171 centimeter, a girth rising 138-163 centimeter, an arm span of 2 – 2.7meter. They are identified by unique nose prints to each individuals Mountain gorillas have fur which is often thicker and longer than that of other gorilla species, that enables them to live in colder temperature which is one of the Mountain Gorillas Facts. In 2003 these species were divided into two species ‘’Gorilla gorilla and Gorilla berengei by ‘’The World Conservation Union’’ IUNC. ![]() Since then, there has been considerable unresolved debate discussion over the classification of mountain gorillas, not until 1967 when the taxonomist Colin Groves proposed the population of gorillas to be regarded as one species ‘Gorilla gorilla’ ’with three subspecies ‘Gorilla gorilla gorilla’’ western lowland gorillas and ‘Gorilla gorilla graueri ‘lowland gorillas found west of the Virungas as well as ‘Gorilla gorilla berengei’ Mountain gorillas are found in the Virungas and Bwindi. Moreover, Mountain gorillas were isolated from eastern lowland gorillas for about 400,000 years and these two taxa separated from their western counter parts estimating 2 million years ago. In the way back, the fossil record of the area where mountain gorillas used to inhabit was totally poor and so its evolutionary history is not clear, that occurred about 9 million years ago when the group of primates that were to evolve into gorillas split from their common ancestor with humans and chimps, its time when the genus Gorilla emerged. Mountain gorillas are descendants of ancestral monkeys and apes to see in Africa. In 2018 the total population estimated over 1004 individuals and currently are said to be a total of about 1063 individuals in three adjacent national parks namely Uganda’s Bwindi and Mgahinga Gorilla National park, Rwanda’s Volcanoes National park and Virunga National park and Virunga National park in the Democratic Republic of Congo.Įvolution and Classification -Mountain Gorillas And ,there are two populations of mountain gorillas of which one is found in the Virunga Volcanic mountain of Central African within three famous National parks which are Mgahinga Gorilla national park in Southwest Uganda ,Volcanoes national park in northwest Rwanda and Virunga National Park in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo ‘’DRC’’ as well as Uganda’s Bwindi Impenetrable National Park that inhabits half of the population remaining in the world. Mountain Gorillas Facts : Mountain Gorillas are the world’s smallest population one of the two land dwelling subspecies of the eastern gorillas, listed as endangered by the IUCN ‘’International Union for Conservation of Nature. ![]()
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