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SILVERBACK GORILLA

Published on Nov 20, 2015

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silverback GORILLA

the biggest ape
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Deriving from Greek Gorilla means from "tribe of hairy women"

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Gorillas are herbivores and eat leaves, shoots, roots, vines and fruits

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Silver-backs consume 45 lbs of food every day, which explains there big belly

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Mating Season: Throughout the year.
Gestation: 8.5 months.
Litter size: 1 baby.
Gorilla infants are helpless at birth and weigh about 3-4 lbs.

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Gorillas are threatened by habitat loss due to increasing human populations, poaching for the bushmeat trade and diseases like ebola. Species that live in higher elevations, like mountain gorillas, are also affected by climate change

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Gorilla numbers have rapidly declined to below 5,000 today, They are critically endangered

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Gorillas have arms that are longer than their legs and tend to walk on all four limbs at certain times, a movement that is called knuckle walking

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A group of gorillas, also called a “troop,” can contain from 5 to 30 gorillas

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The silverback decides where the troop travels, where it forages for food, where it will rest and where it will sleep at night.

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Younger males who don't yet have the silver saddle are called "blackbacks."

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If the mighty Silver-back went extinct the bush would be less diverse...

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It would become so less diverse because some plants seeds need to go through an animals digestive tracts

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So we need Gorillas so that all of the animals in the bush can

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