![]() Gorillas live in fairly stable social groups comprising of one adult male usually referred to as the silverback (because of the silver hair on his back which signals full adulthood) and multiple females with juveniles and infants. ![]() Gorillas have been observed displaying emotions such as grief and compassion for other primates, including humans.Scientist have shown that gorillas display individual personalities.All species are endangered due to habitat loss and hunting amongst other threats, however the Cross River Gorilla is the rarest with fewer than 300 wild individuals remaining in eight small isolated populations in Nigeria and Cameroon. The Western Gorilla ( Gorilla gorilla) has the sub-species: Western Lowland Gorilla ( Gorilla gorilla gorilla) and Cross River Gorilla ( Gorilla gorilla diehli) while the Eastern Gorilla ( Gorilla beringei) has the sub-species: Mountain Gorilla ( Gorilla beringei beringei) and Eastern Lowland Gorilla ( Gorilla beringei graueri). There are two different gorilla species (each with two sub-species).Gorillas and chimpanzees walk quadrupedally (on all fours) and use their knuckles to carry the weight of their head and torso.They share between 95% and 99% of our DNA! Gorillas are one of our closest living relatives, after chimpanzees and bonobos.African apes (gorillas, chimpanzees and bonobos) diverged from a common ancestor about 5 million years ago and belong to the family Hominidae.
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