Gorilla · The atlas type is the western gorilla -- a knuckle-walking ape whose Fossey-era mountain cousins and Koko lab fame split one public name.
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Tribune Publishing, no photographer credited · Public domain
Karisoke mountain-gorilla biography.
Dian Fossey (1932-1985, United States / Rwanda) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
“Icons teach constraints: law, habitat and methods matter as much as a famous face.”
Patterson sign project.
Koko (gorilla) (1971-2018, United States) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
“Icons teach constraints: law, habitat and methods matter as much as a famous face.”
Erikafossey · CC BY 4.0
Poaching death that funded a myth.
Digit (gorilla) (died 1977, Rwanda) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
“Icons teach constraints: law, habitat and methods matter as much as a famous face.”
Film that fixed Fossey as the gorilla.
Gorillas in the Mist (1988, United States) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
“Icons teach constraints: law, habitat and methods matter as much as a famous face.”
Greg Hume · CC BY-SA 3.0
The numerous CR subspecies and the zoo gorilla.
Western lowland gorilla (G. g. gorilla, Central Africa) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
“Icons teach constraints: law, habitat and methods matter as much as a famous face.”
Matt Muir · CC BY 4.0
Western gorilla clearing science.
Mbeli Bai (platform study, Republic of the Congo) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
“Icons teach constraints: law, habitat and methods matter as much as a famous face.”
Unknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Pre-Fossey mountain gorilla monograph.
George Schaller (1960s mountain work, United States) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
“Icons teach constraints: law, habitat and methods matter as much as a famous face.”
Yvette Kaboza · CC BY-SA 3.0 igo
The filmed species protection, not the atlas type range.
Virunga rangers (mountain parks, DRC / Rwanda / Uganda) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
“Icons teach constraints: law, habitat and methods matter as much as a famous face.”
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Public gorilla is a mountain biopic. The CR numbers are western. Mixing them flatters a rebound that belongs to G. beringei.
Koko is a lab argument. Wild western intelligence is foraging, nesting and social memory in a hunted forest -- not a keyboard.
Asia largest cat whose subspecies map, 1973 Project Tiger and remaining 4,000-odd wild animals define a century of recovery arithmetic.
Overall 62 🦁A social pantherine whose prides, Gir relic and 2015 Cecil killing still structure African conservation politics.
Overall 66 🐘The atlas type is the bush elephant -- an ecosystem engineer whose ivory ban (1989) and split from forest elephants still structure African conservation.
Overall 61 🐺A Holarctic pack hunter whose 1995 Yellowstone return and older Leopold ethics still structure predator politics.
Overall 78 🐼A bamboo specialist whose WWF logo, Wolong quake and 2016 IUCN downlist from EN to VU made a recovery into a brand.
Overall 41 🐻A marine bear whose seal-and-ice budget made Churchill, Knut and climate models into one public animal.
Overall 56 🐋The largest animal whose 1966 IWC protection, 1982 moratorium and still-thin Antarctic recovery define a hunted giant.
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