Animal Quiz

how many different gorilla taxa are currently accepted and what are they?

(no cheating - we all have the internet and no doubt a plethora of animals books.....HEADS ONLY!!)
 
there are 3 gorrilla taxa, mountain, eastern lowland, and western lowland, am i right, i always get this one confused, i no there are 3 but im not sure,

and gorrillas in the swamp, i guess u are referring to bia's in the rainforests of africa, these are spectacular places, where all the animals gather to drink, and they are created by elephants did u know.

i still carnt beleive the platypus are the most expensive animals to maintain, thts amazing!!!!
 
bai's are amazing places - i have always wanted one of our zoos to recreate one with bongo, congo buffalo, gorillas etc. using wet moats (as there are in the bai's) to seperate the ungulates from the gorillas.

of course forest elephants, grey parrots, guereza colobus, red river hogs and just about everything else live here too. amazing. watch the BBC congo doco or read the megatransect articles in national geo....(if ya already haven't).

as for the gorilla question. nice try guys - Zoo_Boy you are close but actually not quite right. i'll leave it to anyone else to have a guess before i reveal the answer.
 
with the gorrillas apt, is there such a taxa as the cross river, i have heard this thrown around a bit, but i thought it was just another name for the westerns
 
yea thnx mate, and i dnt really no who came up with the rules lol, we sorta all jst agrreed together lol. i reakon once u have had a go leave it alone
 
Heres one you blokes may know, what was the heaviest Polar bear ever recorded? in kgs or pounds will do?
 
slow down mark!

rules state you can't aska question unless you answer correctly.....

question was - how many taxa of gorillas are there?
 
ops, sorry guys did not know about the rules, about the gorilla taxa they appear to have changed the number again so i guess it appears hows doing the taxa, the lastest taxa appears to be the cross river gorilla?. I think there could now be 6 taxa?.
 
OK Pat heres the nitty gritty on Gorillas,

TWO Species of Gorillas & FOUR Sub species,

The Eastern Gorilla ( Gorilla beringei )
two sub species,

Mountain Gorilla (gorilla beringei beringei)
Graver's Gorilla ( gorilla beringei graueri)

The Western Gorilla (Gorilla gorilla)
two sub species,

Western Gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla)
Cross river Gorilla(Gorilla gorilla diehli)
 
mark you are a genuis.

but tell me - did you happen to cheat and look that up in a book to get the answers?

anyhow, your question about polar bears now..
 
ok what was the heavist polar bear ever recorded in kgs or pounds will be fine.

About the Gorillsa pat i did read about the sub species some time ago as it is one of my interests with animals, eg Atlas lion sub species
 
an intest of mine too mark. i just had to look up the latin spelling of a couple. but since you had aalready had a crack and not mentioned the other subspecies and more imporatantly the new classification of the eastern and western forms as seperate species - i thought i would ACCUSE YOU!!!

i have no idea how much any polar bears weigh. id'e say a very, very big one might get close to a tonne?
 
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