Comments on: First Professional Footage of the Most Endangered Subspecies of Gorilla

By: cryptidsrus

cryptidsrus — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:57:58 +0000

I agree with CryptoRaptor: It’s rare to find a Gorilla THAT high up in a tree. As far as I know.

That may be one of the main things differentiating this Gorilla from other kinds of Gorilla, Korollocke.

Good footage.

By: DWA

DWA — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 14:34:20 +0000

Korollocke: what’s different about these gorillas? A layman probably couldn’t tell you. Put one of these in a group of any other gorilla subspecies and it might go unnoticed.

This isn’t exactly a cryptid. But its differences from other gorilla populations have been known for some time; and the countries in which it lives aren’t exactly untouched by humans. But those countries have more wild in them than most, even the residents, suspect. And that it took this long to get footage of a known species – an animal bigger than a human, lounging way up in trees where it ought to be easy to see them – should give anyone pause when it comes to discussing animals like this that aren’t documented yet.

By: korollocke

korollocke — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 02:48:03 +0000

Pardon my ignorance, but what is different about them in relation to other gorillas?

By: Cryptoraptor

Cryptoraptor — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 02:15:00 +0000

It is hard to discern from the video how they look any different physically from the other three species, even if to a very slight degree.

Wikipedia states that they are designated as being a different species based on skull and tooth dimensions differing from the Western Lowland Gorilla.

I don’t recall ever seeing photos/video of gorillas that high in trees before.

Whatever happened to stories about the bondo ape? After all the hype they turned out to be a known species of chimpanzee, Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii?

I thought they were supposed to have a sagittal crest, kill lions, and be up to 6.5 feet tall.