Hug This Animal: Mountain Gorilla
April 4, 2008 by Peggy
My dream job is to work with Koko the gorilla, but since I don’t live in the same area or know sign language, I’m going to write about Koko’s friends in the rain forest instead.
The subspecies of gorilla you’ve most likely encountered in a zoo is the western lowland gorilla. It belongs to the western gorilla species, which has several subspecies. The other main species of gorilla is the eastern gorilla, and the mountain gorilla is a subspecies of this group.
Since Dian Fossey studied mountain gorillas for many years, they are probably the best understood of all gorillas. The gorillas …read more