With the many technologies that are utilizing fingerprint reading, this couldn’t be more puzzling and worthwhile. They have unique fingerprints, like humans. Given how closely related we are this shouldn’t come as a shocking revelation. Some domestic animals also have more than one eyes colour, but this is rare in wild animals. Eye ColourĪ mountain gorilla’s eyes are dark brown, framed by a dark ring around the iris. Gorillas are said to have a singular eye colour of dark brown, unlike humans who have many eye colours. Grey hair on the back.Ī mature male’s hair turns grey starting with the back- hence the name silverback. After a young male gorilla (black back) matures, the hair on its back starts to turn grey/silver. This is even more vital for the mountain gorillas that stay in high altitude places of around 2,320 meters above sea level. Their longer and thicker body hair help them stay in cold high altitude places. Living in tropical climates which are wet much of the year, gorillas are able to stay warm due to the hair covering their bodies. Gorillas can also walk with only their legs (as humans do) but knuckle-walking gives them more balance to climb trees and steep hills. They walk on the knuckles of their hands – which is appropriately called knuckle-walking. Their arms are longer than their legs. This is why they usually walk on all fours. A silverback mountain gorilla in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park – Uganda 2. Silverbacks will be bigger than this average estimate. This is as tall as Arnold Schwarzenegger. Averagely, an adult mountain gorilla stands at 4 to 6 feet (1.2 to 1.8 metres) in height. In fact, gorillas are the biggest primates. Physical Facts about Mountain Gorillas 1. And when you do see gorillas, we hope you will be looking out for these facts and habits and well as many more. They have personalities, moods, and subtleties that make every encounter different.īefore you can actually see these mountain gorillas, here are some interesting facts that we hope are fun to learn. Seeing gorillas in person – with your own eyes is an experience that everyone describes in their own way. Efforts to keep mountain gorillas in a zoo environment failed, and they can only survive in their natural environment. This means that all those other gorillas in wildlife zoos are not mountain gorillas. What makes the mountain gorillas more intriguing than the other gorillas, is the fact that they cannot survive in a captive environment of the zoo. The other subspecies being the Eastern lowland gorilla. Mountain gorillas are a subspecies of the Eastern gorilla. Mountain gorillas are among the most fascinating animals that live in the forested wilderness of Africa. As an endangered species that is so close to humans as far as genetics are concerned, gorillas are also one of tourism’s must-see attractions.
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