A single bone forms the lower jaw, which has specialized teeth for cutting, grinding, milling, and so on. Like humans, they have 32 teeth in their jaws. The large belly is the result of a long digestive tract, essential to digest the fibrous food they consume. The skull is large compared to the size of their body, and they have a big and highly developed brain. The sagittal crest is large enough to hold the strong jaw muscles used by gorillas when chewing tough, fibrous vegetation. Their spine is straighter compared with that of humans, and the muscles of their arms, shoulders, neck, and back allow them to have strength up to 6 times higher.
Their skeleton is adapted to hold the weight of their body. Additionally, all gorillas have no tails. Male gorillas grow in their backs silvery hair patterns, which works as an optical illusion because makes them look longer than they are. As mountain gorillas inhabit the coldest areas, they have thicker and longer fur than the other subspecies. The pelage of lowland gorillas is shorter than the other species, but all subspecies lack hair around the nose, lips, chest, ears, feet fingers, and palms of hands.
#CROSS FINGERS AND TOES CLOUD ATLAS SKIN#
Like humans, they have unique fingerprints and nails instead of claws.īoth skin and fur have dark colors, sometimes black, brown, or dark gray. Thumbs and toes are opposable therefore they can easily manipulate objects. When walking, they do it on their knuckles, resting their weight on the arms. Around the nose, there are a few wrinkles unique to each gorilla, a fact used by scientists to quickly identify them in the wild. Above their eyes, there is a noticeable brow ridge, and they have small ears on both sides of their head. The belly area is bigger than the chest, and an elongated head up is due to a prominent sagittal crest.
This size is much larger than its height! Moreover, the length between the tip of one arm and the other is between 2.3 and 2.6 meters. Author: Didier-Descouens.Īdult females weigh around 68-113 kilograms and males, 135-180 kg, an average of all subspecies.
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