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Gorilla — Gorillas in the Mist · 131

[684] [roadmap-gorilla-5] A forest clearing in Nouabale-Ndoki where western gorillas come for minerals -- a platform study that rarely makes a biopic. 131 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. 1988: log Gorilla under “Gorillas in the Mist” with 1972. Do not rank t

The atlas type is the western gorilla -- a knuckle-walking ape whose Fossey-era mountain cousins and Koko lab fame split one public name. The taxonomy wiki is Western gorilla. Mountain gorillas are G. beringei, fewer, more filmed, and less CR. The atlas follows the listed type, not the movie.

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.

Keep 1988, “Gorillas in the Mist,” and 1972 together or the note on Gorilla stops being that year’s record. 1988: log Gorilla under “Gorillas in the Mist” with 1972. Do not rank the species. 19721988

Figures to keep

Year of the note
1988
Figure to keep
1972
Species
Gorilla
Line in the log
Gorillas in the Mist

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