The eastern lowland gorilla and mountain gorilla were previously thought to be two of the three subspecies of one single species, the gorilla ( Gorilla gorilla ).

Try to imagine a gorilla performing the same maneuver, and you can see that, compared with gorilla, we are halfway to being shaped like a fish.

Another success story is the mountain gorilla in Central Africa.

The blog Gorilla Protection is following the situation and posting regular updates.

So when you do that, here's what I can promise You're going to be the 800 pound gorilla in the forest.

However, he responds to the ad anyway and, upon arriving at the address, finds himself in a room with a gorilla.

This means that it is impossible for anyone to be in Bukima, and so it also means that none of our guards are able to be in the Gorilla Sector.

There is a very fluid situation unfolding at the Virunga national park in Congo. The Congo war is spreading into the protected Gorilla sector in the Virunga mountains, which is now under the control of the rebels.

All I can tell you is that in my congressional office in Colorado and my office in Washington, we're getting hundreds and hundreds of calls about the endangered ape and gorilla population in Rwanda, but nobody is calling about the people.

It's therefore probable that Africa was formerly inhabited by extinct apes closely allied to the gorilla and chimpanzee, and as these two species are now man's nearest allies, it's somewhat more probable that our early progenitors lived on the African continent than elsewhere.

The monitoring of gorilla habitats in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is being carried out in cooperation with ESA, while awareness raising workshops for site managers are being organized in Latin America in cooperation with the National Commission on Space Activities of Argentina.