The Great Apes

[The Panther]

(02-14-2020, 05:40 PM)johnny rex Wrote:

(02-14-2020, 05:25 PM)The Panther Wrote: Silverback mountain gorilla in the chilly misty forest.

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This is an Ugandan subspecies, right?

It's a Virunga male, from the DRC and Rwanda type. They tend to have thicker fur than their Bwindi cousins, due to colder temperatures at even higher altitudes. They also tend to have thick fur on their eyebrows, which Bwindi mountain gorillas seem to lack on average. Virunga mountain gorillas are typically around 8500 to 10000 ft in altitude, but they've been known to roam the very cold and frosty alpine tundras at 13000 to 14000 ft. It can also snow at anytime of the year in the alpine tundra, so it's pretty harsh up there. Bwindi gorillas tend to be around 6000 ft and probably max at around 8000 ft. So that explains why Virunga gorillas are even shaggier than their close relatives in Bwindi Uganda. Reply