Western gorilla

The western gorilla (Gorilla gorilla) is one of the 2 living species in the genus, Gorilla. Almost all off the living subspecies are western lowland gorillas, as the other subspecies Cross River gorilla, only has about 250 to 300 specimens left. They are listed as "Critically Endangered" by the IUCN Red List due to poaching, deforestation, and Ebola, the latter can be up to the point were the species is impossible to recover.