Species
Western lowland gorilla
Quiet, close-range communication punctuated by rare high-intensity displays — a species where absence of vocalisation is itself informative.
Wild species
- • Maintain the minimum distance set by the park authority, typically 7–10 metres, and never longer than one hour of observation.
- • If a silverback displays, crouch, look down and stay still. Do not run and do not photograph with flash.
- • Do not visit if you have any respiratory illness.
Acoustic profile
What a recording device must capture.
Fundamental frequency
40–900 Hz
Meaningful spectrum
20 Hz – 8.0 kHz
Recommended sample rate
48.0 kHz
Individual profiles
Supported
Capture note
Contentment "belch vocalisations" are low and quiet. Chest-beating is percussive and broadband with an infrasonic component that consumer microphones capture only as a transient.
Signature signals
What an experienced observer looks for in this species.
Belch vocalisation
audioLow, rumbling contentment call during feeding and rest.
Chest beat
audioBroadband percussive display carrying size information.
Strut stance
videoStiff-legged broadside posture preceding a display.
Behaviours
Categories the engine may report — and the ones it must never report for this species.
Supported
Excluded for this species
Excluded categories are removed before ranking, so they can never win on a superficial signal match.
Taxonomy
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Mammalia
- order
- Primates
- family
- Hominidae
- genus
- Gorilla
- species
- Gorilla gorilla gorilla
Body-language channels
Only these are weighed for this species.
Limitations
- • Close calls are quiet and are frequently masked by forest ambience.
- • Chest-beat rate encodes body size more than emotional state.
Species adapter
Adapter
primate-adapter@0.1.0
Provenance
Shared primate adapter; priors from published Gorilla close-call and display literature.