Close Gorilla Encounter | Explorer

that’s a monkey
Oh wonderful
hey you can have a chance to see
gorillas as this to hear you kidding
Khalid um is it fresh it’s for today
if we’re lucky huh yeah
Louis we are watching the gorilla so we
have to wear our masks gorillas are very
susceptible to human germs a simple cold
could prove fatal in a song vocalizes to
reassure the gorillas he means no harm
is there there stay there
I’m coming down
is roughly 900 mountain gorillas
remaining on earth and close to half of
them live here in Braga and the adjacent
national parks as I can see assume among
its horn bar family he’s less a family
of gorillas is typically led by a
dominant older male the silverback
who gains his silver tinge about 13
years old when he becomes an adult
they share 98% of our human DNA
incredible
they’re peaceful gentle mainly
vegetarian and clearly they spend most
of their time feeding the male eats up
to sixty pounds of vegetation a day to
see these incredible creatures in the
wild what a humbling gift it hits me a
gut level a sense of responsibility and
a clear need to protect them
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