Mountain gorillas entirely feed on leaves, fruits, celery, bamboo shoot, roots, stems, fruits and sometimes ants, termites and insects, they don’t drink water because the food they eat is sufficient with moisture. Mountain gorillas often rest during midday and this helps them in group bonding, during this period the female mountain gorillas groom their young ones as well as associate with other young group members. The relationship between the females is relatively weak compared to females and males, the Silverbacks do everything possible to protect their groups even if it leads to death. Mountain gorillas live in a social structure of groups from 5-30 individuals, the group’s compromise of silverbacks, females, juveniles, infants and subadults dominated by on the main silverback that commands all the group activities daily.
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Mountain gorillas are herbivores and live in groups dominated by silverbacks silverbacks are called so because of the grey patch of hair they develop on their backs as they mature, the main predators of mountain gorillas are humans and sometimes leopards.
They are humans close relatives next to chimpanzees and bonobos.
Mountain gorillas are an endangered species of primates living in Volcanoes national park in Rwanda, Virunga national park in Congo and Bwindi and Mgahinga national park in Uganda.
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