The western or lowland bongo, Tragelaphus eurycerus eurycerus, is a herbivorous, mostly nocturnal forest ungulate and among the largest of the African forest antelope species.

The lowland bongo faces an ongoing population decline and the IUCN Antelope Specialist Group considers the western or lowland bongo, T. eurycerus eurycerus, to be Near Threatened on the conservation status scale.

Bongos are further classified into two subspecies: Tragelaphus eurycerus eurycerus, the lowland or " western bongo ", and the far rarer Tragelaphus eurycerus isaaci, the mountain or " eastern bongo " restricted to north-eastern Central Africa.

The western / lowland bongo faces an ongoing population decline as habitat destruction and meat hunting pressures increase with the relentless expansion of human settlement.

As the largest and most spectacular forest antelope, the western / lowland bongo is both an important flagship species for protected areas such as national parks, and a major trophy species which has been taken in increasing numbers in Central Africa by sport hunters during the 1990s.

Both of these factors are strong incentives to provide effective protection and management of western / lowland bongo populations.

In 2002 the IUCN, listed the western / lowland species as Near Threatened.

The IUCN Antelope Specialist Group considers the western or lowland bongo, T. eurycerus, to be Lower Risk ( Near Threatened ), and the eastern or mountain bongo, T. e. isaaci, of Kenya to be Critically Endangered.

Lowland gorillas live in dense forests and lowland swamps and marshes as low as sea level, with western lowland gorillas living in Central West African countries and eastern lowland gorillas living in the Democratic Republic of the Congo near its border with Rwanda.

Until recently, gorillas were considered to be a single species, with three subspecies: the western lowland gorilla, the eastern lowland gorilla and the mountain gorilla.

The glaciers were able to carve away more land on the eastern side of the lowland because the bedrock is made of shale which is much softer than the carbonate rocks on the western side.

western coastal plain ( costa ), high and rugged Andes in center ( sierra ), eastern lowland jungle of Amazon Basin ( selva ).

Flora and fauna of the region include the normal ecological succession from lowland big leaf maple and western red cedar through Garry oak on up through fire-dependent species such as lodgepole pine and Douglas fir, as well as grand fir, silver fir and other species common to Gifford Pinchot National Forest.

The southern Skagerrak and North Sea coast is the lowland south of the mountain range, from Stavanger in the west to the western reaches of the outer part of the Oslofjord in the east.

The western shores of the bay are a lowland known as the " Hudson Bay Lowlands " which covers 324, 000 km².

The Andean region is regarded as the center of species richness and speciation because of the additional 25 % of lowland taxa that reach the eastern or western foothills of the Andes.

The mountainous districts of western Hubei, in particular Shennongjia, with their cooler summers, attract numerous visitors from Wuhan and other lowland cities.

" Congo Gorilla Forest " is a rainforest that is home to the 20 or so western lowland gorillas in the zoo.

While speakers of Mixe – Zoquean languages are today confined to the mountains of northeast Oaxaca, along the backbone of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, and into extreme western Chiapas, it is likely that they once occupied the entire Gulf Coast lowland from the isthmus to the Tuxtla mountains – in other words, the Olmec heartland, soon dominated by the presumably Mixe – Zoque-speaking Olmec civilization of about 1400 to 500 BCE.

Image: Bristol. zoo. western. lowland. gorilla. arp. jpg | The gorilla is the largest and one of the most endangered primates on the planet.

The topography of Saitama Prefecture is largely divided by the Hachiōji Tectonic Line, which runs through Kodama, Ogawa, and Hannō, into the western mountain area and the eastern lowland area.

The American physician and missionary Thomas Staughton Savage and naturalist Jeffries Wyman first described the western gorilla ( they called it Troglodytes gorilla ) in 1847 from specimens obtained in Liberia.

Another gorilla, named Ndume, was selected by Koko from a group of videotapes shown to her by Patterson, who played several tapes showing male western gorillas, in what may be described as an attempt at " video-dating.

The ape species included in the study were western gorillas ( Gorilla gorilla ), eastern gorillas ( Gorilla beringei ), bonobos ( Pan paniscus ) and chimpanzees ( Pan troglodytes ).

Binti Jua is a western lowland gorilla female in the Brookfield Zoo, in Brookfield, Illinois, outside of Chicago.

From 1953 to 1968 WPZ was home to Bobo, a western lowland gorilla ( Gorilla gorilla gorilla, the same species as the gorillas currently living at the zoo ).

It was not until 1967 that the taxonomist Colin Groves proposed that all gorillas be regarded as one species ( Gorilla gorilla ) with three sub-species Gorilla gorilla gorilla ( western lowland gorilla ), Gorilla gorilla graueri ( lowland gorillas found west of the Virungas ) and Gorilla gorilla beringei ( mountain gorillas including, Gorilla beringei found in the Virungas and Bwindi ).

Koko, the western lowland gorilla trained in sign language, is afraid of crocodiles and alligators, even though she was born in captivity and has never seen them.

), Sumatran rhinoceros ( Dicerorhinus sumatrensis ), and apes like the western lowland gorilla ( Gorilla gorilla ), as well as many species of reptiles, amphibians, and insects.

Opened in 2002, Ndoki Forest houses two of the larger African species, the African elephant and western lowland gorilla, as well as de Brazza's monkey, slender-tailed meerkat, and various birds.

The Sumatran tiger, and western lowland gorilla head the list of the zoo's population.

A knife was accidentally left in the western lowland gorilla enclosure.

Gorilla Island is home to a family of western lowland gorillas, which are the largest animals kept at Bristol Zoo.

Campo Gorilla Reserve opened in November 2007 and features western lowland gorillas in a complex.

The Cross River gorilla ( Gorilla gorilla diehli ) is a subspecies of the western gorilla ( Gorilla gorilla ).

* Images and movies of the western gorilla ( Gorilla gorilla ) at ARKive

Starting in 1950 with director William Berke ’ s Mark of the Gorilla, Katzman proved himself a master of all genres, with such films as Lew Landers ’ Tyrant of the Sea ( 1950 ), a rapidly paced swashbuckler ; Spencer Gordon Bennet ’ s Cody of the Pony Express ( 1950 ), an elegiac western chapter-play ; the near-documentary State Penitentiary ( Lew Landers, 1950 ); the rousing action serial Pirates of the High Seas ( Spencer Gordon Bennet, 1950 ); Chain Gang ( Lew Landers, 1950 ), a hard-boiled exposé of the prison system reminiscent of Mervyn LeRoy ’ s 1932 classic I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang ; A Yank in Korea ( Landers, 1951 ), covering the then-escalating conflict ), Richard Quine ’ s wartime drama Purple Heart Diary ( 1951 ); Last Train from Bombay ( Fred F. Sears, 1952 ), an exotic thriller ; Sears ' The 49th Man, an essay in Cold War atomic paranoia ; two Arabian Nights films, Prisoners of the Casbah and The Saracen Blade ( William Castle, 1954 ) and Castle ’ s The Iron Glove ( 1954 ), which starred Robert Stack in a Technicolor swashbuckler, done in typical Katzman fashion.

This subspecies is considerably larger and more robust in appearance than the western lowland gorilla ( Gorilla gorilla gorilla ), having a longer body, longer teeth, a stronger jaw and a broader torso.

It is not between Euripides and Shakespeare that the western mind turns away from the ancient tragic sense of life.

Such payments shall be made to small domestic producers of zinc as long as the market price for prime western zinc at East Saint Louis, Illinois, as determined by the Secretary, is below 14-1/2 cents per pound, and such payments shall be 55 per centum of the difference between 14-1/2 cents per pound and the average market price for the month in which the sale occurred as determined by the Secretary.

A western vacation is practically synonymous with a visit to at least one of the magnificent national parks in this area.

Raymond Vernon reports that residents of East St. Louis have been driving across the Mississippi, through the heart of downtown St. Louis and out to the western suburbs for major shopping, simply because parking is easier at the big branches than it is in the heart of town.

In western Europe and North America, where the level of economic development is higher, grains and other seed products furnish less than one-third of the food consumed.

The entrance to a church has been walled up, so that the congregation, most of which is in the western sector, cannot worship God there anymore.

The western terrestrial garter snake ( Thamnophis elegans ) in California is largely aquatic and depends heavily on two species of frog that are diminishing in numbers, the Yosemite toad ( Bufo canorus ) and the mountain yellow-legged frog ( Rana muscosa ), putting the snake's future at risk.

A Modest Proposal is included in many literature programs as an example of early modern western satire.

This script is the parent script of all western alphabets.

Asia Minor ( from, Mikrá Asía, small Asia ) is a geographical location at the westernmost protrusion of Asia, also called Anatolia, and corresponds to the western two thirds of the Asian part of Turkey.

The first is between western Australia and eastern Africa.

The second is between eastern Australia and western South America.

The third is between Japan and western North America.

The people of Graz, the capital of Styria, speak yet another dialect which is not very Styrian and more easily understood by people from other parts of Austria than other Styrian dialects, for example from western Styria.

Traditionally, Anatolia is considered to extend in the east to a line between the Gulf of Iskenderun and the Black Sea, approximately corresponding to the western two-thirds of the Asian part of Turkey.

The general consensus amongst scholars is that Luwian was spoken — to a greater or lesser degree — across a large area of western Anatolia, including ( possibly ) Wilusa (= Troy ), the Seha River Land ( to be identified with the Hermos and / or Kaikos valley ), and the kingdom of Mira-Kuwaliya with its core territory of the Maeander valley.

Confirming evidence is found in excavations of the western regions of the Mississippi Valley between 1150 and 1350, which show long-lasting patterns of warmer, wetter winters and cooler, drier summers.

Though some of the masonry in the ruins is certainly pre-Roman, the Suda's identification of it with Cyinda, famous as a treasure city in the wars of Eumenes of Cardia, cannot be accepted in the face of Strabo's express location of Cyinda in western Cilicia.

Albertosaurus (; meaning " Alberta lizard ") is a genus of tyrannosaurid theropod dinosaur that lived in western North America during the Late Cretaceous Period, about 70 million years ago.

Today, Alemannic is a linguistic term, referring to Alemannic German, encompassing the dialects of the southern two thirds of Baden-Württemberg ( German State ), in western Bavaria ( German State ), in Vorarlberg ( Austrian State ), Swiss German in Switzerland and the Alsatian language of the Alsace ( France ).

Aachen is at the western end of the Benrath line that divides High German to the south from the rest of the West Germanic speech area to the north.

One such example is the common use of western broccoli ( xīlán, 西蘭 ) instead of Chinese broccoli ( jie lan, 芥蘭 jièlán ) in American Chinese cuisine.

Occasionally western broccoli is also referred to as sai lan fa ( in Cantonese ) in order not to confuse the two styles of broccoli.

The orange western carrot is known in some areas of China as " foreign Daikon " ( or more properly hung lo bac in Cantonese, hung meaning " red ").