Gorilla — Savage and Wyman · 11
[605] [roadmap-gorilla-0] The atlas type is the western gorilla -- a knuckle-walking ape whose Fossey-era mountain cousins and Koko lab fame split one public name. 11 A massive knuckle-walker with a sagittal crest in males, a gut for fibrous plants, and nests built new each night. The atlas type is western; the silverback image is shared. 1847: log Gorilla under “Savage and Wyman” with 1972. Do no
Karisoke watched mountain gorillas in Rwanda. The methods and the murder belong to that species; western gorillas have Mbeli Bai and different threats (Ebola, bushmeat). Francine Patterson project treated signs as words. Linguists remain split. The atlas files Koko as culture and a research programme, not as proof that wild western gorillas recite English.
CR western gorillas plus Ebola, logging and hunt. Mountain gorilla rebound is real and is a different species card. A forest clearing in Nouabale-Ndoki where western gorillas come for minerals -- a platform study that rarely makes a biopic. The 1988 film helped mountain gorilla tourism and the Fossey myth. Western lowland numbers kept falling on a different map.
Western lowland gorillas are the usual zoo gorilla. Captive groups do not replace Gabon and Congo forests. A mountain gorilla poached in 1977. Fossey used the death to fund anti-poaching -- a mountain, not western, story that still titles books. Gorilla is one of 24 types in this animals atlas. The pages treat it as a full system -- history, anatomy, operating principles, culture, icons, future pressure and market shape -- not a ranking of a best species.
The order on the card is year, line, figure. Gorilla is not sorted by how much visitors like the photo. 1847: log Gorilla under “Savage and Wyman” with 1972. Do not rank the species. 19721847
Figures to keep
- Year of the note
- 1847
- Figure to keep
- 1972
- Species
- Gorilla
- Line in the log
- Savage and Wyman
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