Gorilla
Gorilla es un genere de simia, le gorilla. Il ha duo species: G. gorilla, le gorilla occidental, e G. beringei, le gorilla oriental.

Classification

Supertaxones
 classe = Mammalia
 ordine = Primates
 familia = Hominidae
 subfamilia = Homininae
 tribo = Gorillini

Subtaxones
 Genere Gorilla 
 Gorilla gorilla
 Gorilla gorilla gorilla
 Gorilla gorilla diehli
 Gorilla beringei
 Gorilla beringei beringei
 Gorilla beringei graueri

Description
Gorillas es le plus grande primate. Ille es un herbivore que inhabita le forestes del Africa. Gorillas es divide in duo species e 4 o 5 subspecies. Le ADN de gorillas es 98%–99% identic de human, e illes es le plus vicinitate de hominees dopo de le due chimpanze species.

Gorillas vive in tropical o subtropical forestes. Le Gorilla Montan inhabite le montan forestes de Albertine Rift de Volcanes de Virunga, rangiar in altitude de 2225 to 4267 m. Le Gorillas del campo vive in forests dense de palude basse Que le nivello del mar.

Nomines 
Le nomine es derivate de le parole grec Gorillai (un "tribe de feminas capillute") descriso de Hanno le Navigator, un Carthaginian navigator e un possible visitor (circa 480 BC) de le area que devenite Sierra Leone.

Evolution 
Le proxime relatives de gorillas es le chimpanzes e le homes, de que gorillas divergeva 7 million annos retro. 

Genes human differe 1.6% per media de le correspondente genes de gorilla in sequentia, ma existe multe differentias in cunata multe copias qualcun gene ha.

Primatologistas continua a explorar le relation inter varie populationes de gorillas. Le species e subspecies listate:

Intelligentia 
Gorillas es close relative de humanes e es considerate multe intelligent. In captiviate, un individos come Koko, ha aprendite le lingua de signos (vide lingua de animales pro discussion).

Extinction 
Le species de gorilla es un specie in periculo de extinction.
Conservation effortes include le Great Apes Survival Project, un partneriato intro Nationes Unite Programme de Ambiente e United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, e tamben un international tratato, le Agreement on the Conservation of Gorillas and Their Habitats, de UNEP Convention on Migratory Species. Le Gorilla Agreement es el primo instrument legal exclusivo pro Gorilla conservation e es in effecto de 1 June 2008.

Vide etiam 
 Dian Fossey
Appendice:Galeria de imagines de animales

Referentias

Ligamentes externe 
 Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting  International Gorilla Conservation Programme (Video)
 Gorilla Haven - information about gorillas
 Gorilla Natural History - behavior, genetics and taxonomy
 Primate Info Net Gorilla Factsheet - taxonomy, ecology, behavior and conservation
 San Diego Zoo Gorilla Factsheet - features a video and photos
 World Wildlife Fund: Gorillas - conservation, facts and photos
 Gorillas at Prague Zoo - hit reality-tv show (24/7) of live gorillas at the Prague Zoo
 Gorilla protection  - Gorilla conservation at Virunga National Park
 Gorilla (genus) su Animal Diversity Web

Hominidae
Species in periculo