It stands out from the gorilla crowd with its beefy build, mighty mitts, and a snub nose. These gorillas call the lush lowland tropical rainforests of the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo home.

(A male gorilla is called a silverback when ... was a complete stranger. He didn't match our nose-print sketches (of lined indentations above the nostrils) or photographs of known gorillas.

There has only been one albino western lowland gorilla ever found in the wild or captivity. Snowflake the gorilla lived in the Barcelona Zoo for 36 years and he was the world’s only albino gorilla.