Things You Never Knew About Gorillas

Gorillas are the largest extant genus of primates  by size, they are ground dwelling and predominantly herbivorous apes that inhabit the forests of central Africa

The DNA of gorillas is highly similar as that of a human from 95% to 99% depending on what is counted. 

These are the things you might have never known about  Gorillas.

• Gorillas are the largest living primates, the family of animals that includes monkeys apes and humans. Amature male gorilla can be over 6 feet tall and weigh 300 to 500 pounds
• Like humans  gorillas have two legs and arms, ten fingures and ten toes, small ears on the side of the head, foward looking eyes and 32 teeth.
• Gorillas normally walk by putting their feet flat and walking on their knuckles of their hands, they can stand up right but they don't do it very often.when they do its often to chest slap which can show excitement or aggression.
• Gorrilas can live more than 50 years, new born babies are very small, weighing only about 4.5 pounds. they are helpless at birth and depend on their mothers for about three years and they usually stay in their family group as they grow up.
• Gorillas can communicate with each other with the use of gestures, body postures and facial expressions,vocal sounds, and chestslaps drumming and odours
• Gorrilas are very intelligent and they share with us a full range of emotions like, love, hate grief,joy greed ,generosity,pride shame and jealousy.
• Gorillas sleep about 13 hours each night and rest for several hours at mid day, they build new sleeping nests every night by bending nearby plants into a springy platform usually on the ground and in low trees.
• A typical Gorilla family includes one silverback the strongest male and the undisputed leader, one immature  male between 8 and 13 years old, three or four adult females who ordinarily stay with the silver back for life.
• Gorillas are shy and peaceful, the only natural enemy of gorillas has been man.

Gorillas are among the animals that are the very liable to extinction if not conserved well and given the real attention they deserve if we really need them in the future, and we really do.