HOW INTERESTING IT IS TO SEE YOUR SELF AMONG THE GORILLA TREKERS!!! FOR SURE HAVE AN EXPERIENCE OF YOUR LIFE TIME ENJOY THE TREK EITHER IN PARC DE NATIONAL RWANDA OR BWINDI !!!! HAVE YOU EVER BEEN THERE ? DONT WAIT TO BE TOLD
THE ACTIVITY IS SO ENJOYFUL !!!
HAVE FUN WITH THE GORILLAS!!
DAY 2 DAY LIFE OF THE GORILLAS
GORILLAS CAN ALSO HAVE FUN !!!!
GORILLAS ARE THE LARGEST OF ALL THE GREAT APES AND POSSES 98% OF THE SAME NUCLEAR DNA AS HUMANS AND ARE CLARIFIED UNDER THE SAME FAMILY HOMINIDAE. THEY ARE NON AGGRESSIVE AND CAN LIVE UP TO FIFTY YEARS IN THE WILD IF AT ALONE THERE'S NO EXTERNAL INTERFERENCE WITHIN THIER WILDERNESS. VEGETATION IN NATURE, GORILLAS EAT FRUITS,LEAVES AND SHOOTS AND MAY SUPREMENT THEIR DIET WITH INSECTS AND SMALL ANIMALS. GORILLAS ARE DIURNAL THAT SPEND MOST OF THIER WORKING HOURS ON THE GROUND BUT SLEEP IN THE TREES AND BUILD THIER OWN NESTS EVERY NIGHT USING BRANCHES AND FOLIAGE ,THE FIRST GORILLAS BIRTH WAS REGISTER IN DECEMBER 22ND 1956 IN CAPTIVE AT COLOMBUS ZOO IN OHIO ,GORILLAS ARE OF THE 2 SPECIES WESTERN GORILLAS AND WESTERN GORILLAS ,EASTERN GORILLAS TEND TO HAVE BLACK HAIR THAN THEIR WESTERN COUNTER PART THEN THEY TEND TO BE BROWNER .GORILLAS HAVE HAIR NOT FUR. MOUNTAIN GORILLAS HAVE LONGER HAIR ,LARGER JOES AND TEETH ,SMALLER NOISES AND SHORTER ARMS THAN OTHER GORILLAS. THEIR LARGEST SUBSPECIES OF GORILLAS IS THE GRAVER GORILLAS (EASTERN LOWLAND GORILLAS) NOT A SINGLE ONE OF THE GORILLAS IN AZOOS AROUND THE WORLD IS A MOUNTAIN GORILLAS ,THEY ARE ALL LOW LAND GORILLAS.DIAN FOSSY WAS THE FOREMOST PERSON RESPONSIBLE FOR ALERTING THE PUBLIC AT LARGE TO THE PLIGHT OF THE MOUNTAIN GORILLA.MOST GORILLAS SEE ON THE SAFARI AT HABITUATED MOUNTAIN GORILLAS(BWINDI SUBSPECIES TOO) GORILLAS LIVE IN FAMILY GROUP OF (6-30)INDIVIDUAL LEED BY 1 OR 2 SILVER BACKS. AGROUP OF GOPRILLAS IS CALLED ATROOP WHILE ASILVER MATURE MALE WITH APATCH OF SILVER GREY)HAIR ON HIS BACK FROM WHENCEHEV DERIVES HIS NAME AND WEIGHYS NEARY THREE TIMES AS MUCH AS THE AVERAGE MAN UP TO 222 KGS .ADULT MALE MAY HAVE AHIGHT OF 1.7 M AND WEIGH 135-222 KGS AND EATS UPTO 40POUND OF FOOD A DAY ADULT FEMALES ARE NATURALLY SMALLER REACHING AHEIGHT OF 1.5 M AND WEIGH BTN 70-90 KGM IN THE WILD ,GIVE BIRTH ONCE EVERY 4 YEARS NORMALLY TO A SINGLE BABY BUT OCCASIONALLY TO TWINS ,AND HAVE ASMALLER GESTATION PERIOD TO HUMANS BTW 8.5-9MONTHS ADULTS ARMS ARE 20% LONGER THAN LEGS GORILLAS WALK BY USING ALL THE 4 LIMBS SUPORTED BY KNUCKLES (WALKING) GORILLAS CANOT SWIM BUT SOME TIMES WET INTO SWAMPS TO FEED ON AQUATIC PLANTS.THE FEMOUS CHEST BEATING IS USED FOR INTIMIDATING OUTSIDERS AND COMMUNICATING BETWEEN THE GROUPS. INSPITE OF ALL THESE PHYSICAL EXPRESSIONS OF EMOTIONS ,GORILLAS ARE SHY AND NOT AGGRESSIVE UNLESS IMPROPERLY DISTURBED
THE UN EXPECTED APPEARANCE OF STRANGE MALE IN A GROUP MAY CAUSE THE SILVER BACK TO MOUNT AN ELABORATE WARNING DISPLAY ,HE HOOTS EXCITEDLY BUILDING TO AN EAR SPLINTING LOWER TO THE INTRUDER.HAVING RAISED TO ITS FEARFUL HEIGHT ,TEARING AT TWIGS AND BLANCHES,A GORILLA BEATS ITS CHEST WITH ACAPT PALMS OF HIS ARMS, HE MAY TAKE AFEW STEPS AT THE INTRUDER, GROWING AND NURSING HIS TEETH IF THIS DOEST DETER THE STRANGER,THE SILVER BACK MAY BE PROVOKED TO CHARGE,WAIVING HIS ARMS AND SCREAMING WITH RAGE. THE CHARGE USUALLY STOPS SORT OF ACTUAL CONTACT" THE SILVER BACK WITH THRUST ITS FACE RIGHT UP AND ITS NOSE GLORYING EACH OTHER UNTIL ONE OF THE TURNS OR TAKES OFF ANEW GUIDES WEN ON GORILLA SAFARI ASSET MAXIMUM NUMBER OF A GROUP MAY VISIT A GROUP OF HABITUATED GORILLAS IN UGANDA OR RWANDA SO AS TO MINMISE THE BEHAVIORAL DISTURBANCE TO THE GORILLA AND RISK OF THEIR EX POSER TO HUMAN BORN DISSES THE GUIDES WILL TAKE YOU TO WHERE THEY OBSERVED THE GORILLAS THE DAY BEFORE YOU WILL FOLLOW THE GORILLA TRAIL TO FIND THEM.LOOK OUT FOR THE GORILLAS ,NESTING SITES ALONG THE WAY AND WASH HANDS BEFORE YOU VISIT THEM AS FIVE MITRES DISTANCE SHOULD BE OBSERVED AT ALL; TIMES 15 MITERS FROM THE GORILLAS .KEEP YOUR VOICE DOWN AT ALL TIMES. DO NOT EAT OR DRINK WHILE YOUR NEAR THE GORILLAS. SOME TIMES THE GORILLAS CHARGE,WHEN THEY DO CROUCH WHEN THEY DO DO NOT LOOK THE GORILLAS DIRECTLY IN THE EYES AND WAIT FOR THE ANIMALS TO PASS,DO NOT TAKE PICTURES OR ATTEMPT TO RUN AWAY FRASH PHOTOGRAPHS ARE NOT PERMITTED WHEN TAKING PICTURES CAREFULLY , DO NOT TOUCH THE GORILLAS DESPITE THEIR CADILY LOOK AND SPEND A MAXIMUM OF 1 HOUR WITH GORILLAS, AFTER THE VISITS ,YOUR VOICES DOWN UNTIL YOUR ARE 200 MITERS AWAY FROM THE GORILLAS
