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Conservation efforts include the Great Apes Survival Project, a partnership between the United Nations Environment Programme and the UNESCO, and also an international treaty, the Agreement on the Conservation of Gorillas and Their Habitats, concluded under UNEP-administered Convention on Migratory Species. Female mountain gorillas first give birth at 10 years of age and have four-year interbirth intervals. Lethal coalitionary attacks of chimpanzees ( Pan troglodytes troglodytes) on gorillas ( Gorilla gorilla gorilla) in the wild".
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There are many threats to their survival, such as poaching, habitat destruction, and disease, which threaten the survival of the species. Western lowland gorillas depend on fruits more than the others and they are more dispersed across their range. Composition of the diet of chimpanzees and comparisons with that of sympatric lowland gorillas in the Lopé reserve, Gabon". Individual characteristics such as age, sex, personality and individual histories are essential in understanding that stressors will affect each individual gorilla and their welfare differently.Western gorillas live in both lowland swamp forests and montane forests, at elevations ranging from sea level to 1,600m (5,200ft).
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They have been shown to have cultures in different areas revolving around different methods of food preparation, and will show individual colour preferences. Colo (December 22, 1956 – January 17, 2017) of the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium was the first gorilla to be born in captivity. The separate species and subspecies developed from a single type of gorilla during the Ice Age, when their forest habitats shrank and became isolated from each other.
Mature males also tend to leave their groups and establish their own troops by attracting emigrating females.
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The closest relatives of gorillas are the other two Homininae genera, chimpanzees and humans, all of them having diverged from a common ancestor about 7million years ago. New insights in insect prey choice by chimpanzees and gorillas in Southeast Cameroon: The role of nutritional value". Gorilla facial structure is described as mandibular prognathism, that is, the mandible protrudes farther out than the maxilla. Studies have shown gorilla blood is not reactive to anti-A and anti-B monoclonal antibodies, which would, in humans, indicate type O blood.Eastern gorillas inhabit montane and submontane forests between 650 and 4,000m (2,130 and 13,120ft) above sea level. She later became an advocate for the conservation of gorillas, and wrote several more books (mainly for children). Like some other apes such as chimpanzees and orangutans they are even capable of learning basic human sign language. Troops tend to be made of one adult male or silverback, with a harem of multiple adult females and their offspring.