[vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1712308791833{margin-top: -70px !important;}”][vc_column][rev_slider slidertitle=”Eastern low” alias=”slider-8″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row_content” css=”.vc_custom_1712339251022{padding-top: 5px !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text]Grauer’s gorilla, also known as the Eastern Lowland gorilla, is only found in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and is the largest of the four gorilla sub-species. These are found in the lowland and Albertine rift montane forests of eastern D.R.C. Not until the mid-1990’s, their population was thought to total at around 17,000 individuals, but the latest survey found that the numbers had crushed to less than 4,000.
[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row_content” css=”.vc_custom_1712345055515{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/2″ css=”.vc_custom_1712344949109{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_single_image image=”4542″ img_size=”900×500″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″ css=”.vc_custom_1712345019265{padding-top: 50px !important;}”][vc_column_text]Eastern lowland gorillas are highly sociable and very peaceful, living in groups of two to over thirty individuals. A group usually consists of one silverback, several females and their offspring. Silverbacks are strong and each group has one dominant leader (alpha male). These males mainly protect their groups from danger.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row_content”][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1712347038759{padding-top: 20px !important;}”]Adult females give birth to one baby nearly every four years although a surviving infant is produced only every 6-8 years due to high infant mortality in the first three years of life. A baby gorilla is born weighing 1.2.- 2 kilograms after a gestation period of 251 to 295 days. The Eastern lowland gorillas eat every part of the plant, including roots, stems, flowers, bark and even fungi (e.g. mushrooms). They will eat smaller ground plants and vines as well as foraging in the trees. This species will sometimes eat insects but for the most part they are herbivores.
Male and Female Eastern Lowland gorillas
Adult male gorillas, or silverbacks, will be close to twice the size of the females with silver hair on their back and large bump on top of their heads called sagittal crests. Even with these indicators, it may sometimes be difficult to tell the difference between the young males and adult females.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
