When was silverback gorillas discovered

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Thank you again for your understanding in this matter and for your continued loyalty. Wild Republic Quality Team. If you would like updates on our Republic Rescue efforts, please leave us your name and email below:. Shop now! Wild Republic Recall Safety! It's been more than 50 years since legendary primatologist Dian Fossey first encountered gorillas in the mist of the Virunga Mountains. Her legacy lives on at the Karisoke Research Center in Volcanoes National Park, where researchers are actively working to conserve the species.

Check out some interesting facts about mountain gorillas below. Such great heights: Mountain gorillas roam the steep mountain forests of four national parks across Uganda, Rwanda, and Democratic Republic of the Congo, at elevations in the range of around 8, to 13, feet—about the same altitude from which a skydiver jumps out of a plane.

Adult gorillas can eat up to 30kg of food each day. As roaming herbivores, gorillas play a vital role in seed dispersal. Many large fruit trees depend upon these animals to survive. Research published in early showed that gorillas hum when contentedly when eating their favourite food. The oldest gorilla ever recorded was a female western gorilla at the Columbus Zoo that reached the ripe old age of 60 before dying in Gorillas build nests in which to sleep, both on the ground and in trees, made of leaves and branches.

Counting abandoned nests is an effective way for scientists to estimate population size. More helpfully, gorillas also have unique noseprints, which can be used to identify individuals from photographs by looking at the nostrils and the bridge of the nose.

Gorillas plus chimps and bonobos are specialised knuckle-walkers. As knuckle-walkers, gorillas have various adaptations for stability and weight-bearing.

Females usually produce just one baby every four to six years. In total, a female will only give birth three or four times. Between and , large numbers of Rwandan refugees fled to camps at the edge of the Virunga National Park, leading to uncontrolled firewood harvesting as well as increased poaching see below. Convoys of people from Rwanda and DRC destroyed large tracts of the park, home to mountain gorillas and other endangered species, to create agricultural and pastoral land.

Hunting In addition to being hunted for meat, mountain gorillas are also illegally hunted for trophies and live infants.

As many as 15 of Virunga's mountain gorillas may have been killed since the outbreak of civil war in Between and , when large numbers of Rwandan refugees fled to camps at the edge of the Virunga National Park, 4 habituated silverback gorillas were killed, along with some of their group members.

In , a further 7 gorillas were killed. While gorilla habitat does not currently fall within an oil concession, development in the park could negatively affect the animals' security. Disease As more people move into their habitat, and more tourists come to see them, mountain gorillas are becoming increasingly exposed to a variety of human ailments.

More on threats to gorillas More on illegal wildlife trade More on habitat loss. Livestock and human encroachment is a serious threat to Virunga National Park, an important protected area for mountain gorillas. What is WWF doing? Our 40 years of work to save the mountain gorilla and its forest habitat represents one of our longest-running flagship species programmes.

Early gorilla surveys and aid to protected areas in the Albertine Rift ecoregion started in the s. IGCP's mission is to empower the people of Rwanda, DRC and Uganda to jointly manage a network of transboundary protected areas that the mountain gorillas depend on.

Priority species Gorillas and other great apes are a WWF priority species. Learn more about the risk posed to gorillas and other biodiversity by this proposed exploration.