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The Panther · 08-23-2021, 02:47 PM

Impressive young silverback Maraya at just 20 years old. Bwindi impenetrable forest, Uganda.

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The Panther · 08-31-2021, 08:49 PM

Young silverback Muturengere in the cold foggy morning. Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda.

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The Panther · 08-31-2021, 08:55 PM

Big male Kabukojo, Bwindi Impenetrable Forest Uganda.

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The Panther · 09-13-2021, 05:11 PM

Young silverback resting near some fern leaves. Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda.

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Fern leaves like this are found in very Northern and Southern forests outside of Africa, but because of the cold/ temperate wet mountain conditions, it's found in mountain gorilla habitat also. The higher you go up the mountains, the more the forests start to look Somewhat European instead of tropical.

The Panther · 09-19-2021, 11:48 AM

The massive Munyinya and his Hirwa group. This was way before his sickness and weight loss, back when he was still strong and healthy.

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~~Styx38~~ · 09-20-2021, 01:14 AM

Here are all the Gorilla species and their range.

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source: McRae, Ryan, and Gary P. Aronsen. "Inventory and Assessment of the Gorilla gorilla (Savage, 1847) Skeletal Collection Housed at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History." Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 59.2 (2018): 199-247.

The Panther · 09-25-2021, 12:52 PM

Very large solitary silverback Bonane. Kahuzi Biega National Park, Democratic Republic of Congo.

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The Panther · 10-02-2021, 04:23 PM

Silverback Makara with a severe face injury after encountering non habituated gorillas. Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, Uganda.

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The Panther · 10-17-2021, 01:04 PM

Western silverback Kamaya. Loango National Park, Gabon.

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The Panther · 10-23-2021, 12:11 PM

The Ngogo Chimpanzee group, which is the largest group of chimpanzees with over 200 members. Imagine what a force these guys could be. Kibale National Park, Uganda.

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The Panther · 10-23-2021, 12:21 PM

Big old silverback Cantsbee (at the end) with his group and his silverback son Gicurasi.

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The Panther · 11-14-2021, 01:55 PM

The legendary and majestic King Titus, Volcanoes National Park Rwanda.

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The Panther · 11-20-2021, 03:41 PM

(05-26-2021, 08:31 PM)Nightman Wrote:
(05-11-2020, 03:50 PM)Shadow Wrote:
(02-22-2020, 09:41 PM)ragelion Wrote: Gorilla killing a leopard

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This picture is interesting because all reliable sources (people like Baumgartel, Schaller and some other people researching gorillas) have found out only cases in which leopards have killed gorillas and also several silverbacks. This picture looks like something in fictive books like Tarzan, which don´t need to be realistic. Gorillas are known to be afraid of leopards because leopard is only natural predator of gorilla in those areas where gorillas live. Only in one case it´s observed a fight between silverback gorilla and a leopard so, that both died to injuries. In all other known confrontations leopards killed gorillas.

But of course people can draw pictures in order to show how things would happen in their imagination, that is what artistic freedom is all about, I guess. But if someone would find a real case like this, that would be something new.

Not really, since the only record of a fight to the death between the two involved only the leopard dying. This is the account recorded by George Schaller btw. Regardless of blogs and books made in the 2000s, the gorilla was not recorded dying and nowhere in the original book does it say that.
From the 1976 reissue of the 1963 book

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I know this was from a while ago, but it's interesting that they say "Gorillas, however don't seem to have no fear of leopards" in the quotes, which is funny because people act like gorillas including adults always fall victim to leopards, so naturally they should be running away like an antelope instead of standing their ground. Very interesting, it just shows that the outcomes are not all black and white.

The Panther · 11-20-2021, 03:46 PM

Hirwa female with her twins, both are beating their chests. Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda.

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The Panther · 12-06-2021, 10:13 PM

Camera trap footage of a rare Cross River gorilla group in Nigeria. These are true West African Western lowland gorillas.

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