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[59] [61] However, while gorilla troops usually disband after the silverback dies, female eastern lowlands gorillas and their offspring have been recorded staying together until a new silverback transfers into the group. This likely serves as protection from leopards. [60] Silverback gorilla
By ten years old, a female gorilla is considered fully grown. All gorillas in the family group have been documented caring for young, and it is not only the dominant silverback who fathers ...
A gorilla has been observed to use a stick to measure the depth of water. In 2009, a western lowland gorilla at Buffalo Zoological Gardens used a bucket to collect water. In an experiment, one adult male gorilla and three adult female gorillas were given five-gallon buckets near a standing pool.
Hanabiko, nicknamed "Koko" (July 4, 1971 – June 19, 2018) was a female western lowland gorilla born in the San Francisco Zoo [2] and cross-fostered by Francine Patterson for use in ape language experiments.
A 2-year-old female western lowland gorilla died at the Calgary Zoo after sustaining head injuries from the closing door, zoo officials said The Calgary Zoo Eyare at the Calgary Zoo.
Ndakasi was born on 17 April 2007 in the Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the daughter of silverback Senkwekwe and Nyiransekuye. [1] Alongside her parents, three additional females and three other babies, Ndakasi made up the Kabirizi family. [2]
Azizi, a 20-year-old silverback male western lowland gorilla, arrived at the Milwaukee County Zoo on Jan. 10. He has spent the past month acclimating to his new environment and getting acquainted ...
Binti Jua (born March 17, 1988) is a female western lowland gorilla resident at the Brookfield Zoo, in Brookfield, Illinois, outside Chicago, United States.She received media attention after a situation in 1996 in which she tended to a three-year-old boy who had been injured by falling into her enclosure.