Thursday 16 April 2015

Western Lowland Gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla)

In this April 14, 2015, photo provided by the Wildlife Conservation Society, a pair of infant lowland gorillas sits with their respective mothers at the Congo Gorilla Forest exhibit in New York City’s Bronx Zoo. The zoo is introducing two new baby western lowland gorillas to the public. (Julie Larsen Maher/Wildlife Conservation Society via AP)

Population left: Unknown
The most widespread of all gorilla subspecies in the Congo Basin, their numbers have rapidly decreased by as much as 60 percent in the last 20-25 years due to poaching and disease.
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