eastern gorilla is the type of animal that is a mountain gorilla.
eastern gorilla is the type of animal that is a mountain gorilla.
what type of animal is a mountain gorilla?
eastern gorilla
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the mountain gorilla ("gorilla beringei beringei") is one of two subspecies of the eastern gorilla ("gorilla beringei"). it is listed as endangered on the iucn red list, as the total population is estimated to comprise 1,004 individuals in two populations as of 2018. one population lives in uganda's bwindi impenetrable national park, and the other in the virunga mountains in three adjacent national parks, namely uganda's mgahinga gorilla national park, rwanda's volcanoes national park, and virunga national park in the democratic republic of congo.









































section::::evolution, taxonomy and classification.
mountain gorilla
it was about 9 million years ago that the group of primates that were to evolve into gorillas split from their common ancestor with humans and chimps; this is when the genus "gorilla" emerged. it is not certain what this early relative of the gorilla was, but it is traced back to the early ape "proconsul africanus". mountain gorillas have been isolated from eastern lowland gorillas for about 400,000 years and these two taxa separated from their western counterparts approximately 2 million years ago. there has been considerable and as yet unresolved debate over the classification of mountain gorillas. the genus was first referenced as "troglodytes" in 1847, but renamed to "gorilla" in 1852. it was not until 1967 that the taxonomist colin groves proposed that all gorillas be regarded as one species ("gorilla gorilla") with three sub-species "gorilla gorilla gorilla" (western lowland gorilla), "gorilla gorilla graueri" (eastern lowland gorilla) and "gorilla gorilla beringei" (mountain gorilla). following a review in 2003, they were divided into two species ("gorilla gorilla" and "gorilla beringei") by the world conservation union (iucn).
mountain gorilla