Grauer’s gorilla has a shorter, thicker, deep black fur, while the mountain gorilla has a more bluish color.
This is why the older males are called silverbacks. When the gorilla gets older, the hair on the saddle of the back becomes white, much like the gray hair of elderly people. The fur is mainly black, but adult males have a silvery “saddle” on their back. The face, hands, feet and breast are hairless. The eastern gorilla is a large hominid with a large head, broad chest, and long arms. gorilla gorilla), which justified the separate classification. The two eastern subspecies are now classified as G. However, genetic research has shown that the two eastern subspecies are far more closely related than the western subspecies: the western lowland gorilla (G. Grauer’s gorillas and mountain gorillas were previously thought to be two of the three subspecies of one single species, the gorilla (Gorilla gorilla). At the present day the Eastern Mountain gorilla found in volcanic slopes of Rwanda, Uganda and eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The International Union for the Conservation of Nature mentioned illegal hunting in its assessment of threats to the species. Grauer’s gorilla, formerly known as the eastern lowland gorilla is more populous, at about 3,800 individuals mentioned to be in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and the mountain gorilla has only about 880 individuals. At present, the species is subdivided into two subspecies. The eastern gorilla (Gorilla beringei) is a critically endangered species of the Gorilla and the largest living primate. Lowland gorillas live in dense forests and lowland swamps and marshes as low as sea level, with western lowland gorillas living in Central West African countries and eastern lowland gorillas living in the Democratic Republic of the Congo near its border with Rwanda. The mountain gorilla inhabits the Albertine Rift montane cloud forests of the Virunga Volcanoes, ranging in altitude from 2,200–4,300 meters (7,200–14,100 ft). Although their range covers a small percentage of Africa, gorillas cover a wide range of elevations.
Gorillas’ natural habitats cover tropical or subtropical forests in Sub-Saharan Africa. The DNA of gorillas is highly similar to that of humans, from 95–99% depending on what is counted, and they are the next closest living relatives to humans after the chimpanzees and bonobos. The Gorillas are divided into two species: the eastern gorillas and the western gorillas (both are seriously endangered).
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