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Eastern Gorilla

Educational resources on Eastern Gorilla

Eastern Gorilla or Gorilla beringei is listed on the IUCN Red list (1996) as Endangered due to A2cd. IUCN Profile of the Eastern Gorilla

Academic web links for the Eastern Gorilla.


ADW: Gorilla beringei: Classification
Gorilla beringei (eastern gorilla) ...
animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/classification/Gorilla_beringei.html?portal...

Primate Factsheets: Gorilla (Gorilla) Taxonomy, Morphology, & Ecology
...gorilla, or låglandsgorilla (Swedish); G. gorilla: western gorilla; G.g. diehli: Cross River gorilla; G.g. gorilla: western lowland gorilla; G. beringei: eastern gorilla; G.b
pin.primate.wisc.edu/factsheets/entry/gorilla

Gorilla beringei
Research project by Nick Hallmon on the Eastern Gorilla, including its classification, habitat, diet, adaptations to its forest home, reproduction, behavior and endangered status.
bioweb.uwlax.edu/bio203/s2007/hallmon_nich

Adaptations
The body structure of the Eastern Gorilla is adapted very well for its lifestyle. They have a strong upper body, long arms, fingered hands, and thumbs which all aid in
bioweb.uwlax.edu/bio203/s2007/hallmon_nich/adaptations.htm

ADW: Gorilla beringei: Pictures
Gorilla beringei (eastern gorilla)
animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/pictures/Gorilla_beringei.html

Habitat
The Eastern Gorilla as a species occupies the lowland and mountain rainforests and subalpines forests of eastern Congo and southwestern Uganda, and Rwanda.
bioweb.uwlax.edu/bio203/s2007/hallmon_nich/habitat.htm

ADW: Gorilla beringei: Information
Gorilla beringei eastern gorilla ... Mountain, or eastern gorillas, Gorilla beringei, are found in the Virunga
animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Gorilla_beringei.html

Summarize This
Some of those on the top of the list include the Eastern gorilla from parts of Africa and the Sumatran orangutan from Indonesia. Madagascar and Vietnam each have four primates on
www.auburn.edu/~murraba/connect/campanottarl.html

ADW: Gorilla: Pictures
...eastern gorilla Gorilla beringei: western gorilla Gorilla gorilla: western gorilla Gorilla gorilla : western gorilla Gorilla gorilla: western gorilla Gorilla gorilla
animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/pictures/Gorilla.html

Mammal Species of the World - Browse: beringei
Eastern Gorilla: Type Locality: Rwanda, Mt. Sabinyo. Distribution: N and E Dem. Rep. Congo, SW Uganda, N Rwanda. Status: CITES – Appendix I and U.S. ESA – Endangered as included in G
www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=12100788







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