Talk:Western lowland gorilla

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Eats 900000 pounds a day?????
"The Western Lowland Gorilla eats plants (including bamboo) and occasionally insects. Males eat up to 90000lbs a day."

This just can't be right! Unfortunately I don't have any information on this, but perhaps someone could insert the correct figure here? 83.142.6.166 (talk) 16:41, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

I don't believe 200 lbs is correct either. I think it's closer to 30 kg, but I can't find a source. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.100.136.217 (talk) 05:13, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

LOL 45 TONS LOL 32ieww (talk) 01:37, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

Wait. Just because that figure is crazy doesn't mean that it's wrong. 32ieww (talk) 01:38, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

Best scientific name ever?
"Gorilla gorilla gorilla" - that is pretty amusing. :-D --Grey Knight 02:52, 2 November 2006 (UTC)


 * You'll probably appreciate this: “Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo” &brvbar; Reisio 23:13, 2 November 2006 (UTC)


 * The guy who came up with that deserves either a medal or to get a gold metal, and I'm not sure which! --bookey 03:20, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

Attention needed
This article has only basic information about an existing great ape subspecies. − Twas Now ( talk • contribs • e-mail ) 06:18, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

That's what I came here to say, only less formally. Seriously, it's the silverback fucking gorilla, people. It's an awesome kickass animal. Get working on a good article or I'll kill you all through the internets with my super powers.

habitat
western lowland gorillas live usually in tropical forest!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bookeysize (talk • contribs) 22:39, 8 December 2008 (UTC)


 * From what I know, Western Lowland Gorilla are not found in DRC. In DRC you have Eastern Lowland Gorilla, a different subspecies, Gorilla beringei graueri not Gorilla gorilla gorilla. So I removed DRC uuuǝıɹ 10:12, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Population
Is anyone watching this page? A couple of years ago I heard that they surveyed western gorillas and found that the number was surprisingly high. Now I googled for it: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/08/080805-gorillas-congo.html http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/08/05/congo.gorillas/ anyone care to adjust the numbers? 201.231.150.119 (talk) 06:05, 10 January 2014 (UTC)

Weight updates
It appears that current mean weight given for males (168kg), based on the 1983 Guinness Book of Records, is not a reliable estimate. A more recent textbook source (Mammals of Africa, 2009 edition, Elsevier; source also excerpted here) gives a mean of 140kg for males and 90kg for females. This also better accords with the estimates from the same source for the Eastern lowland gorilla (160kg, 90kg), which is supposed to be slightly heavier on average.

Accordingly, I have updated this estimate and the source. Please comment here. As we currently have a couple of brave edit-warriors strutting their stuff in the gorilla articles, I hope they will be able to curb their zeal for long enough to actually comment on the talk page before doing their usual thing (, that means you in particular). -- Elmidae (talk · contribs) 08:10, 14 April 2018 (UTC)

Final warning to. Next removal without discussion at a talk page will result in a report. This hamfisted edit-warring is unacceptable. If you can't achieve consensus on your changes, you don't get to make them - simple as that. -- Elmidae (talk · contribs) 16:14, 16 April 2018 (UTC)

Recent photo additions
As these span a number of articles: please discuss recent photo additions by at User_talk:SpaceMusk. -- Elmidae (talk · contribs) 17:48, 8 March 2019 (UTC)

No life expectancy section?
38.73.253.217 (talk) 17:21, 29 September 2021 (UTC)

Conservation Status...
Why are Western Lowland Gorillas critically endangered and not just endangered? They consist of 100,000 individuals in the wild. Yoshioka-Seijuro (talk) 16:57, 25 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Looks like the IUCN is very concerned about how swiftly the population is decreasing. - UtherSRG (talk) 11:24, 26 August 2022 (UTC)