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RE: The Great Apes - The Panther - 12-30-2022 (12-28-2022, 06:09 PM)johnny rex Wrote:Yeah I was joking around, I was playing devil's advocate for them due to Kong fighting dinosaurs instead of gorillas. So yes, in reality they fight more like bears than anything which to me is even more fierce than the movies, it's less human like and very intense.(12-10-2022, 02:46 PM)The Panther Wrote:(12-07-2022, 07:44 PM)johnny rex Wrote:To be fair it's not like they're fighting dinosaurs like in the 2005 movie lol, they're fighting a fellow gorilla so the rules might differ a bit. But yeah they generally fight like bears, which to me is just as scary, because the way they fight is very intense and like bears they are solid grapplers. They can rip apart flesh with their teeth once the enemy is on the ground just like bears.(06-19-2022, 11:41 AM)The Panther Wrote: Large dominant silverback mountain gorilla defends a young blackback (teenage male) after a younger silverback attacks him. Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, Uganda. RE: The Great Apes - The Panther - 12-30-2022 (12-28-2022, 06:17 PM)johnny rex Wrote:Exactly. Both N'gagi and M'bongo were very young, both reached over 600 lbs at under 16 years of age, while Samson lived a lot longer than them and had more time to reach his potential. Eastern gorillas are prone to being very big and bulky, mountain gorillas especially start looking chubby even as juveniles.(12-10-2022, 02:31 PM)The Panther Wrote:(12-07-2022, 07:35 PM)johnny rex Wrote:Yes I've seen the mix up before, but what seems more credible is that they were mountain gorillas based on what I read. Their head shape and broader faces also show Virunga mountain gorilla characteristics, though as you mentioned these features can occasionally appear in other populations, especially Bwindi mountain gorillas. Lowland gorillas although they may vary, they still seem more consistent than other Eastern gorillas in features.(09-29-2022, 04:07 PM)The Panther Wrote: N'gagi and M'bongo, the 2 mountain gorillas that lived in San Diego Zoo back in the 1940's. One of the very rare examples of mountain gorillas living in zoos. Despite their young age they were some of the biggest captive gorillas ever recorded, N'gagi peaked at 635 lbs and M'bongo's official weight was 618 lbs, though he was said to have fluctuated between 645 to 670 lbs in life. N'gagi died at 18 and M'bongo at 16, so they were young, in the wild for a mountain gorilla to reach such impressive weights or anything remotely close they'd have to be twice their age, hence why the biggest males are usually over 30 years old. RE: The Great Apes - johnny rex - 01-02-2023 An impressive looking Eastern Lowland silverback gorilla. He looks like some of the mountain silverback gorilla from the Bwindi area. According to the photo description, his name is Chimanuka. https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/eastern-lowland-gorilla-grauer-chimanuka-family-1186396366 [attachment=9856] RE: The Great Apes - The Panther - 01-10-2023 (01-02-2023, 02:24 PM)johnny rex Wrote: An impressive looking Eastern Lowland silverback gorilla. He looks like some of the mountain silverback gorilla from the Bwindi area. According to the photo description, his name is Chimanuka. https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/eastern-lowland-gorilla-grauer-chimanuka-family-1186396366Through the years, I've always noticed the similarities between Grauer's gorillas and Bwindi gorillas. They both have long faces and long flat noses, though Bwindi gorillas generally have wider faces. Virunga mountain gorillas seem to have the most wide ranging features of all eastern gorillas, you can see a very noticeable difference between a male like Guhonda or a male like Munyinya for example, despite them being in the same region. Munyinya had a huge beard and an easily more impressive head compared to Guhonda's, both were similar sized males despite the differences. RE: The Great Apes - The Panther - 01-10-2023 The massive silverback Titus walking alone. He died back in 2009 at 35 years old, this was not long before he died. Virunga mountains, Volcanoes National Park Rwanda. RE: The Great Apes - The Panther - 02-04-2023 Lovely image of dominant male Bornean orangutan called Kusasi. Tanjung Puting national park, Indonesia. *This image is copyright of its original author
RE: The Great Apes - The Panther - 02-04-2023 Great shot of a big bulky silverback called Rushaga. Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, Uganda. Look at the girth of this guy, very impressive. *This image is copyright of its original author
RE: The Great Apes - Spalea - 04-02-2023 The first time I see an account about chimpanzees attacking and killing gorillas in wild. I noticed that the chimp are, and by far, the most aggressive big apes. But it's always amazing to see, that, among big apes, they are the most closely related to humans behavior, able to attack in group in order to kill the young chimps belonging to an other pride and so on... They are also known to kill and eat some other apes, including young chimps. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7dlTMDYcwo The owner of this video doesn't authorize its diffusion onto an other support than youtube... RE: The Great Apes - The Panther - 05-30-2023 Dominant male Kusasi grabs famous actress Julia Roberts. Tanjung Putting National Park, Indonesia. RE: The Great Apes - The Panther - 05-30-2023 A big Western silverback encountered in Lesio Louna Reserve Brazzaville, Republic of Congo. RE: The Great Apes - The Panther - 05-30-2023 Beautiful colourful shot of the huge Mafunzo male and his group. Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda. *This image is copyright of its original author He was pretty young, being born in 1999 but he was massive despite that as you can see, he reminds me of a much older male. He unfortunately died in 2022 due to infection. He was the only silverback of his group leaving females and their young in the process, but thankfully his group are currently settling in with a new group lead by an unrelated silverback. RE: The Great Apes - The Panther - 07-29-2023 Interesting video that shows Chimpanzee interactions with predators in various parts of Africa. The title is a bit of a bait, but still interesting video. You may need to watch it on YouTube. https://youtu.be/8nsRPhseatQ RE: The Great Apes - The Panther - 07-29-2023 Huge male calmly walking by a tourist. Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda I don't know this male by name unfortunately. RE: The Great Apes - The Panther - 07-29-2023 Long-haired Chimpanzee in Mahale Mountains National Par, Tanzania. [attachment=10970] Even chimpanzees show climatic adaptations.The temperatures here isn't freezing cold like what mountain gorillas go through, it's still cool enough to cause chimpanzees to develop denser coats as a result.Their skin is much more covered than their lowland counterparts leaving them with little to no open patches of skin showing. RE: The Great Apes - johnny rex - 09-08-2023 https://www.stltoday.com/news/archives/dec-1-1958-phil-the-gorilla-dies-after-a-hunger-strike/article_efe900c0-ac45-586d-8d97-0057a918ef23.html https://www.facebook.com/625918240776106/photos/phil-not-in-studbook-est-1940-1958male-western-lowland-gorilla-photo-by-the-st-l/1022661954435064/ According to these sources, Phil the captive Eastern/Western? lowland silverback gorilla was 776 lbs when he died. That makes him the largest captive gorilla ever, more than Samson. |