This single species of Gorilla, which is a member of the HOMINIDAE family, is the largest and most powerful of the PRIMATES. It is distributed in isolated scattered populations throughout forests of equatorial Africa.
    

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A gorilla. Lithograph by Jonathan Kingdon.

The hands, feet, nose and ear of a gorilla. Lithograph by G H Ford.

A partially skinned gorilla with various studies of the head. Lithograph by G H Ford.

Thomas Henry Huxley lecturing on the skull of the gorilla. Photograph by Cundall Downes & Co.

The limbs, hands and feet of a male gorilla. Lithograph by F. Robinson, 1865, after J. Wolf.

A section of a gorilla skull showing the cranial cavity. Lithograph.

A large male gorilla. Coloured lithograph by J Wolf.

A gorilla which has just killed a hunter with his own weapon. Wood engraving after J Whitney.

Ueber das Gehirn eines Gorilla und die untere oder dritte Stirnwindung der Affen / [v. Bischoff].

Gorilla gorilla

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A section of a gorilla skull showing the cranial cavity. Lithograph.

Thomas Henry Huxley lecturing on the skull of the gorilla. Photograph by Cundall Downes & Co.

A large male gorilla. Coloured lithograph by J Wolf.

A gorilla which has just killed a hunter with his own weapon. Wood engraving after J Whitney.

Ueber das Gehirn eines Gorilla und die untere oder dritte Stirnwindung der Affen / [v. Bischoff].