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Gorilla - Silverback - dominant male


Gorilla - Silverback - dominant male
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Copyright: Harm Alberts (Harm-digitaal) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 108 W: 7 N: 1844] (7009)
Genre: Animals
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2006-07-07
Categories: Mammals
Camera: Canon EOS 300D, Canon EF 180mm f/3.5L USM Macro
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2007-03-03 10:04
Viewed: 1160
Points: 10
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
The Western Lowland Gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) is a subspecies of the Western Gorilla (Gorilla gorilla) that lives in montane, primary, and secondary forests and lowland swamps throughout all or parts of Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon. Of all gorillas it is the least endangered and is the gorilla usually found in zoos.

The Western Lowland Gorilla eats plants and, occasionally, insects. They live in family groupings consisting of one dominant male, 5 to 7 adult females, children and adolescents, and possibly a few non-dominant males.
Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Lowland_Gorilla

The gorilla, the largest of the living primates, is a ground-dwelling omnivore that inhabits the forests of Africa. Gorillas are divided into two species and (under debate as of 2006) either four or five subspecies. Its DNA is 97%-98% identical to that of a human,[2] and is the next closest living relative to humans after the two chimpanzee species.

The American physician and missionary Thomas Staughton Savage first described the Western Gorilla (he called it Troglodytes gorilla) in 1847 from specimens obtained in Liberia. The name was derived from the Greek word Gorillai (a "tribe of hairy women") described by Hanno the Navigator, a Carthaginian navigator and possible visitor (circa 480 BC) to the area that later became Sierra Leone.

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  • Great 
  • rdfoto Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 372 W: 0 N: 719] (3295)
  • [2007-03-03 11:08]

Bonjour Harm
Très belle composition, excellente netteté et gestion de la lumière. Bravo
Amicalement Robi

A beautiful shot of this gorgeous primate. The pose is very charming. Both colors and detail are very nice. Nicelly done Harm. :)

He man, je prends la pose qui rafraichit ....
Voila ce que je pense que ce gorille songe...
Bravo pour la photo

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  • Nilson Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 442 W: 0 N: 427] (3110)
  • [2007-03-03 15:43]

Que belesa de foto ficou muito boa esta imagem, até parece de brinquedo, a nitidez também ficou ótima,parabéns.
Nilson

Hi Harm

Quelle merveilleuse photo, pleine de tendresse ! Il y a aussi de jolis détails et de belles couleurs, je l'aime beaucoup c'est du beau travail !
Merci et au revoir...JP

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