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| The Truth about Gorillas | ||
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In the Virungas, gorillas eat at least 58 different
food plants mostly leaves, stems and barks. Bwindi forest has many
more plant species than the Virungas. Its gorillas have been less
studied, but are known to eat at least 60 different plants and
probably many more, including more fruit. On rare occasion they
eat insects, snails, soil and even dead infants. The plants that gorillas eat - bamboo shoots, giant thistles and lobelias and crunchy wild celery-contain a lot of water, so gorillas can go for much of the year without drinking. |
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| Gorillas spend about 30% of their time feeding, 30% of their time moving and foraging, and the remaining 40% of the day at rest. They are the most terrestrial of the great apes, spending over 90% of their time on the ground. They move about on all fours, but can stand upright for short periods, particularly to reach food plants or as part of a chest beating display. Gorillas mostly live in family groups. An average group contains about 12 animals, with one or two older silverback males, younger black back males, several females and their offspring. |  |
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Mountain Gorillas Nigeria, Gabon, etc). While 1000 kilometres to the east, the eastern lowland gorilla (G.g. graueri) inhabits the forests of eastern Congo. The mountain gorilla (G.g beringei) is found only in two small populations; about 290 in the Bwindi forest and about 300 in the Virunga volcanoes, on the eastern side of the Great Rift Valley. |
Mountain gorillas are found only in the Virunga Volcanoes and in Bwindi.
The mountain gorilla is the rarest of all the apes. It is slightly larger
than the lowland gorillas. The western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) lives in the lowland rainforests of West Africa (Congo, Cameroon, |
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