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Mountain Gorillas
Mountain gorillas where first discovered by a German captain named Robert Von Beringe on the Sabinyo volcano in 1903. The mountain gorilla is the largest of the gorillas, male gorilla’s weight up to 400lbs, and females weight 215lbs. Their life span is about 40 to 50 years. The mountain gorilla became known on 17 October 1902, and is a subspecies of eastern gorilla. It has long hair, jaws and teeth, and shorter arms, than the eastern lowland gorilla. Adult male gorillas grow silver hair on their back and hips, giving them the name silverback.
These animals are diminishing in numbers because of illegal hunting and encroachment by humans. The mountain gorilla is considered to be critically endangered. There are roughly 700 mountain gorillas remaining on Earth, and nearly half live in the forests of the Virunga Mountains in central Africa. These gorillas live on the green, volcanic slopes of Rwanda, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo—areas that have seen much human violence from which the gorillas have not escaped. The greatest threat to the mountain gorilla...

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