This work covers all three subspecies of the gorilla, photographed over an 8-year period. As well as the mountain gorilla, rare shots of the eastern and western lowland mountain subspecies are included. The book illustrates much of the knowledge that primatologists have culled about gorillas and how they live. Once feared as chest-thumping, man-eating monsters, gorillas are known to be some of the gentlest creatures on earth. The future of these last remaining great apes is uncertain, and the last chapter of this book ...
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This work covers all three subspecies of the gorilla, photographed over an 8-year period. As well as the mountain gorilla, rare shots of the eastern and western lowland mountain subspecies are included. The book illustrates much of the knowledge that primatologists have culled about gorillas and how they live. Once feared as chest-thumping, man-eating monsters, gorillas are known to be some of the gentlest creatures on earth. The future of these last remaining great apes is uncertain, and the last chapter of this book ponders their fate, under threat from civil wars, deforestation, indiscriminate hunting and the use of gorilla body parts as fetishes and souvenirs.
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