Gorilla gorilla Savage and Wyman 1847
CAPTIVE BREEDING
There were 252 males and 301 female gorillas recorded in 109 collections at the end of 1992, these were mostly of the Western Lowland subspecies. Of the captive population, 315 had been captive bred.28 The international studbook for the gorilla is maintained by the Zoologischer Garten der Stadt Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The studbook registered 687 gorillas at the end of 1992.28 The percentage of wild-caught gorillas in captivity, as opposed to captive born has improved greatly since the early 1960s.
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