Wiktionary
n. A subspecies of the eastern gorilla, (taxlink Gorilla beringei beringei subspecies)
WordNet
n. gorilla of Kivu highlands [syn: Gorilla gorilla beringei]
Wikipedia
The mountain gorilla (Gorilla beringei beringei) is one of the two subspecies of the eastern gorilla. There are two populations. One is found in the Virunga volcanic mountains of Central Africa, within three National Parks: Mgahinga, in south-west Uganda; Volcanoes, in north-west Rwanda; and Virunga in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). It is listed as critically endangered by the IUCN. The other is found in Uganda's Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. Some primatologists consider the Bwindi population in Uganda may be a separate subspecies, though no description has been finalized. As of September 2015, the estimated number of gorillas remaining is fewer than 900.
Mountain Gorilla is a 2010 three-part television series produced by the BBC Natural History Unit which features intimate footage of the last remaining wild population of the eponymous great ape. The BBC film-makers were granted access to habituated groups of mountain gorillas in their highland stronghold: Rwanda's Virunga National Park and Uganda's Bwindi Impenetrable Forest. The cameras follow field scientists, veterinary teams and anti-poaching patrols for six months as they watch over the gorillas, providing medical care, protection and observations on their daily lives. The study of these apes was initiated by the primatologist Dian Fossey in the late 1960s.
Mountain Gorilla is narrated by actor Patrick Stewart, and was first broadcast on 22 August 2010 on BBC Two.
Usage examples of "mountain gorilla".
The two known races of gorilla, the mountain gorilla in Virunga, and the lowland gorilla near the coast, both had black hair.
It was a mountain gorilla, or perhaps I should say a gorilla mountain, standing propped up on its front knuckles so that it assumed the shape of a large and muscular sloping ridge tent.
Leakey and Lewin of a mountain gorilla, I do not believe I would envy this person.
Then the screen lost interest in his problems and switched to a story about Tomoyo Nakamora, the Japanese porno star who had contracted to fuck with a mountain gorilla on live television.
The top stories were still the deaths at the Plaza, Tomoyo Nakamora's upcoming bout with the mountain gorilla and the opening by the Tyrell Corporation of a brand new free hospital in Quito, Ecuador.
It was a real mountain gorilla, a silverback, with a long, pink scar across his forehead to show where the brain implants had gone in.
Chief Kosciuszko, who had the same approximate build as a mountain gorilla, almost threw him right over the balustrade.
Last century nobody believed in the mountain gorilla even though there were a lot of tales about it, because no one had seen it.
Today the remnant of the mountain gorilla lives there, and it is part of the much wider range of the more versatile chimpanzee.
One relatively little guy was scaling the bars with the agility of a mountain gorilla.