It also has an overhanging tip on its nose, which the eastern gorilla does not have.

The eastern gorilla prefers forests with a substrate of dense plant material.

The eastern gorilla also has a longer face and broader chest than the western gorilla.

The eastern gorilla is a large hominid with a large head, broad chest, and long arms.

Eastern gorillas tend to have larger group sizes than their western relatives, numbering up to 35 individuals.

Eastern gorillas are herbivorous, with a heavily foliage based diet .

Eastern gorillas live in stable, cohesive family groups, led by a dominant silverback male.

The lowland eastern gorillas live in turbulent times.

The eastern gorilla is the rarer though less threatened of the two gorilla species.

As opposed to the western lowland gorilla, the eastern gorilla is seldom found in zoos.

The eastern gorilla is more darkly colored than the western gorilla, with the mountain gorilla being the darkest of all.

ARKive - images and movies of the eastern gorilla (Gorilla beringei)

The western gorilla lives in west central Africa, while the eastern gorilla lives in east central Africa.

In comparison to the Western Gorillas, the groupings of eastern gorillas are usually much larger and split into temporary groups much less frequently.

Eastern gorilla, (Gorilla beringei)

The eastern gorilla (Gorilla beringei) is a species of the genus Gorilla and the largest living primate.

The mountain gorilla (Gorilla beringei beringei) is one of the two subspecies of the eastern gorilla.

This subspecies is on average the second largest species of primate; only the Eastern Lowland Gorilla, the other subspecies of Eastern Gorilla, is larger.

The eastern gorilla is listed as endangered on the IUCN Red List, with the mountain gorilla listed as Critically Endangered.

The authors of the report have been studying western gorillas - a species distinct from eastern gorillas - since 1995 in the Lossi Sanctuary in the northwestern Congo Republic, near Gabon.

The eastern gorilla includes two subspecies: the eastern lowland gorilla, and the famous mountain gorillas of the Virunga Mountains and southern Uganda (the latter of which numbers approximately 700 individuals).

This new species, commonly called "eastern gorilla", was later determined to consist of two subspecies: the mountain gorilla (Gorilla beringei beringei) and the eastern lowland gorilla (Gorilla beringei graueri).

The Luama River defines the southern boundary of the range of eastern gorillas, which is bounded by the Lualaba river to the west, the Albertine rift to the east and the Lindi River to the north.

The eastern lowland gorilla (Gorilla beringei graueri) also known as the Grauer's gorilla is a subspecies of eastern gorilla endemic to the mountainous forests of eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Of the eastern gorilla (which includes the mountain gorilla subspecies), no more than about 17,500 individuals remain - possibly far fewer, given that an indeterminate number have been killed in recent years to feed miners in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

ARKive - images and movies of the eastern gorilla (Gorilla beringei)

Eastern gorilla, (Gorilla beringei)

Ironically, it is from the fatally accurate marksman von Beringe that the mountain gorillas got their scientific name, gorilla gorilla beringei.

The species was named Gorilla beringei in his honor, a gorilla species distinct from the previously discovered western gorilla ("Gorilla gorilla").

The proposed third subspecies of Gorilla beringei, which has not yet received a trinomen, is the Bwindi population of the mountain gorilla, sometimes called the Bwindi gorilla.

In 2003 after a review they were divided into two species (Gorilla gorilla and Gorilla beringei) by The World Conservation Union (IUCN).

One of the apes was recovered and sent to the Zoological Museum in Berlin, where Professor Paul Matschie (1861-1926) classified the animal as a new form of gorilla and named it Gorilla beringei after the man who discovered it.