![]() ![]() ![]() Here is our detailed article about what gorillas like to eat 15. The fruit and vegetable diet keeps them healthy from some of our ‘modern’ ailments. Bamboo is one of the many plants they eat as either shoots or stems. They are not complete vegetarians though, they also eat ants and insects on occasion. Mountain gorillas eat barks, roots, small branches, fruits, piths and tree pulp. Gorillas will occasionally built their sleeping nests up in the trees – especially in bamboo. They are always on the move for food every morning.Īt the end of the day, they build sleeping nests with either tree branches or leaves where they sleep and move on the next day – abandoning the nests altogether. Gorillas are nomadic and build their sleeping nests every day from branches and grass. Gorillas don’t stay in one place for prolonged periods of time. More importantly, the silverback’s role is in protecting the members of his troop even if he has to die while doing it. Silverbacks are in charge of ensuring the troop’s safety. Every troop is headed by a silverback which is in charge of leading the whole troop to different places for food. This is among other things, ensures their safety and protection. With the death of a silverback, the females look for another family to join. Dominant SilverbackĮach gorilla family is headed by a silverback. Gorilla groups can be smaller or larger than this average, but they cannot have more than one dominant silverback. Gorillas live in small family groups called troops. These gorilla families usually consist of about10 individuals, with one silverback as the leader. Like humans, gorillas mostly die of disease, accidents and natural causes. Gorillas live for 35 to 40 years in the wild. Humans are now able to live much longer, gorillas are still living as long as we were living before modern medicine and mechanization of work. Since you won’t see their fingers much closer, the nose pattern (noseprint) is what you can use to distinguish between two similar looking individuals. Gorillas also have a unique nose pattern that is specific to each gorilla. With the many technologies that are utilizing fingerprint reading, this couldn’t be more puzzling and worthwhile. They have unique fingerprints, like humans. Given how closely related we are this shouldn’t come as a shocking revelation. Some domestic animals also have more than one eyes colour, but this is rare in wild animals. Eye ColourĪ mountain gorilla’s eyes are dark brown, framed by a dark ring around the iris. Gorillas are said to have a singular eye colour of dark brown, unlike humans who have many eye colours. Grey hair on the back.Ī mature male’s hair turns grey starting with the back- hence the name silverback. After a young male gorilla (black back) matures, the hair on its back starts to turn grey/silver. ![]() This is even more vital for the mountain gorillas that stay in high altitude places of around 2,320 meters above sea level. Their longer and thicker body hair help them stay in cold high altitude places. Living in tropical climates which are wet much of the year, gorillas are able to stay warm due to the hair covering their bodies. Gorillas can also walk with only their legs (as humans do) but knuckle-walking gives them more balance to climb trees and steep hills. They walk on the knuckles of their hands – which is appropriately called knuckle-walking. Their arms are longer than their legs. This is why they usually walk on all fours. And when you do see gorillas, we hope you will be looking out for these facts and habits and well as many more.Ī silverback mountain gorilla in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park – Uganda 2. They have personalities, moods, and subtleties that make every encounter different.īefore you can actually see these mountain gorillas, here are some interesting facts that we hope are fun to learn. Seeing gorillas in person – with your own eyes is an experience that everyone describes in their own way. Efforts to keep mountain gorillas in a zoo environment failed, and they can only survive in their natural environment. This means that all those other gorillas in wildlife zoos are not mountain gorillas. What makes the mountain gorillas more intriguing than the other gorillas, is the fact that they cannot survive in a captive environment of the zoo. The other subspecies being the Eastern lowland gorilla. ![]() Mountain gorillas are a subspecies of the Eastern gorilla. Mountain gorillas are among the most fascinating animals that live in the forested wilderness of Africa. As an endangered species that is so close to humans as far as genetics are concerned, gorillas are also one of tourism’s must-see attractions. ![]()
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