Gorilla Anthroploid ape native to western equatorial Africa. Largest of all the great apes, the males reach a overall height of 5 to 6 ft. and weigh from 300 to 600 lbs.
Usually terrestrial, guerrillas will crawl on all fours with the hands doubled under. At night the males sleep at the base of the tree with the females and young in plat form nests above. The guerrillas diet is mainly vegetarian . Being long in danger of extinction, there among the animals protected and in Albert national park established in the Congo in 1922 large is through the efforts of Carl Akeley . |