Monday, February 18, 2008

Physical characteristics

Eastern gorilla (darker skin tone)
Western gorilla (Lighter skin tone)

Knuckle-walking






Gorillas move around a lot of the time with only their knuckles. (knuckle walking). Male gorillas usually range from 5 ft 5 in to 5ft 9 in weighin anywhere from 310-440 pounds. Females are usually half the size of males usually 4 ft 7 in weighing 220 pounds. Eastern gorillas are darker than western gorillas with mountain gorillas being the darkest in skin color with the thickest hair. Western gorillas have a skin color being brown or gray. Finally, gorillas that live in lowland are usually more trim then the mountain muscular gorilla.

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