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Cross River Gorilla Facts: Habitat, Diet, Scientific Name, Population & Predators

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These gorillas have black or brownish-gray fur. The face, hands, and feet don’t have any fur at all, though. The hilly area between Nigeria and Cameroon is home to these gorillas. Though they are getting harder to find, Paul Matschie named the cross-river gorilla a new species in 1904.

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Cross River Gorilla Facts, Habitat, Diet, Scientific Name, Population & Predators

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These gorillas have black or brownish-gray fur. The face, hands, and feet don’t have any fur at all, though. The hilly area between Nigeria and Cameroon is home to these gorillas. A subspecies of the western gorilla , the cross-river gorilla is known by its scientific name, Gorilla diehli.

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Birding the Drakensberg, South Africa

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Races gabonensis and inornatus intergrade in Nigeria; proposed races nigeriae (S Nigeria) and goodi (N Cameroon) not satisfactorily distinguishable from former and latter, respectively. One being that the name is based on the bird’s soft feathers with a texture similar to a mouse’s fur.