The mountain gorillas of Virunga National Park are in serious danger. There around 800 gorillas living in the world and the majority of the gorillas live in the park of Virunga. There are four mountain gorillas located in a gorilla orphanage in Virunga. These mountain gorilla species located here are the only remaining gorillas in the world. The mountain gorillas are in danger because poachers are trying to steal the remaining gorillas and sell them. They would try to kill the parents and take the
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Mountain Gorilla Biological name: Gorilla beringei beringei Habitat: Currently the mountain gorillas are protected national parks in two regions of Africa. One part of the gorillas live in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Uganda. The other group of Gorillas are spread over three national parks in the Virungas mountain. Any left over Gorillas live in lowland rainforests or mountainside forest Population: The mountain gorillas population has gone up and down throughout the years
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Table of contents · Gorilla …………………………………………………………………pg.3 · Physical characteristics and behavior…………………………….. pg.4 · Endangerment………………………………………………………...pg.5 Gorilla’s The gorilla is the largest primate‚ weighing as much as 275 kg (600 lb). Gorillas are forest-associated animals. Most gorillas inhabit lowland tropical rainforests and montane rainforests between 1500 - 3500 m (4900 - 11‚500 ft). Different populations have exhibited preferences for forest margins‚ secondary
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Howie The Gorilla Nehemiah Tynes Day One It all started when our neighbor‚ Mrs. Longbottom‚ asked Jimmy‚ Peter‚ and me to babysit her pet gorilla. Ms. Longbottom had an immense amount of wild animals‚ including tigers‚ lions‚ and elephants. One night‚ we went over to the Longbottom’s house. It was old and rustic. When I looked in the backyard‚ I saw a big hole in the ground. It was about thirty feet deep. I looked around for Howie. Then I heard a big roar. It was coming from upstairs
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In the passage of The Case for the Personhood of Gorillas‚ the authors‚ Francine Patterson and Wendy Gordon make exceptionally compelling arguments as to why animals like gorillas should be considered to be more than just animals. In this passage‚ they inform the reader about a certain gorilla named Koko‚ as well as her eighteen year old son named Michael. Both of these Gorillas have expressed certain elements and features that were once upon a time thought to be exclusive to humans and humans alone
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the process of collecting data and information in order to obtain knowledge about the research topic. With these definitions we can say‚ without a doubt‚ that Dian Fossey was a researcher. But why was she a “good” researcher? By reading the book ‘Gorillas in the Mist’ we can better identify why we can consider Dian a “good” researcher. She illustrates four important traits needed in order to accomplish comprehensive research. These traits are determination‚ consistency‚ knowledge‚ and having passion
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Gorillas in the Mist is the incredible story of Dian Fossey‚ an American Primatologist who spent the prime of her life studying and tracking gorillas. Throughout the story‚ she tells of the hardships that she had to face in order to study these magnificent creatures. At one point‚ when she was just beginning to get deep into her research and make incredible studies‚ all of her work was destroyed by a local militia and she was forced to leave the area. However‚ despite all of this‚ she refused to
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Also known as Grauer’s Gorilla‚ the Eastern Lowland Gorilla is the largest of the four gorilla subspecies‚ and holds the titles of the world’s largest living primate. It is related to the Mountain Gorilla‚ both of which are subspecies of the Eastern Gorilla (Gorilla berengei). A testament to their high level of intelligence‚ wild Eastern Lowland Gorillas have been observed using simple tools to gather food‚ and have been taught to use sign language to create simple sentences in captivity. Despite
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The Eastern Gorilla faces many challenges due to the destruction of its habitat and poaching. The Eastern Gorilla is the largest living primate and has now joined three other great ape species as critically endangered on The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN)’s red list of endangered species. This is extremely worrying to many government and environmental leaders because there are only about five thousand Eastern Gorillas left in the wild. Furthermore‚ of all of the great ape
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Haley Hallowell Dr. Ann Bomberger LENG 241 10 September 2013 Syndrome X and the Silverback Gorillas That’s when it happened. Nothing made Dad suffer more than my syndrome being triggered. I’d stop looking people in the eye‚ and become detached‚ spacy. If there was something to chew on I’d chew on it‚ didn’t matter if it was my nails or the drawstring from the hood on my sweatshirt. Sometimes I tasted blood‚ I chewed so much‚ or if it wasn’t blood‚ something salty. What really got Dad was
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