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 ).

When he tried to go out with the rest of his small team to locate the gorillas they came under attack by armed men.

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

Now, I know that's a dirty word for some people, but we evolved from common ancestors with the gorillas, the chimpanzee and also the bonobos.

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

The most often used insult is Guira Guira, which, according to some means in a local dialect big monkey .

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.

The varied vegetation reflecting an equally varied climate is also home to a significant and very diverse range of fauna mammals (gorillas, elephants, rhinoceroses, hippopotami, giraffes, antelopes), reptiles (vipers, crocodiles and caimans) and all kinds of birds.

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.

Chimpanzees and bonobos are our closest relatives, and we humans, not gorillas or orangutans, are their closest relatives.

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.

In 1925 Carl Akeley, a hunter from the American Museum of Natural History who wished to study the gorillas, convinced Albert I of Belgium to establish the Albert National Park to protect the animals of the Virunga mountains.