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A silverback

The western gorilla (Gorilla gorilla) is a great ape, the type species as well as the most populous species of the genus Gorilla. Western lowland gorillas can be brown or greyish with a yellowish forehead and also have an overhanging tip on their nose that is absent in eastern gorillas. Western gorillas' diets are high in fiber, including leaves, stems, fruit, piths, flowers, bark, invertebrates, and soil. This old gorilla lives at the Zoo of Nuremberg,

 

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