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Western Lowland Gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla)

Munroe a one year old Western Lowland Gorilla is trying to get his mother up to play at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park in Escondido California.

 

The western lowland gorilla is a subspecies of the western gorilla that lives in montane primary and secondary forests and lowland swamps in Angola Cameroon Central African Republic Congo Democratic Republic of the Congo Equatorial Guinea and Gabon. It is the gorilla usually found in zoos. Adult male Gorillas are prone to cardiomyopathy a degenerative heart disease.

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Uploaded on October 23, 2013
Taken on January 30, 2012