Species: Gorilla Baby | Location: Virungas National Park, Rwanda
As we sat silently hunched down in the formidable jungle it seemed like there where gorillas everywhere you looked. Juveniles wrestled around beating their chests to show how tough they were, which soon led to them summersaulting down the mountain in a tangle of hands and feet. Moms with newborn babies eating right next to us as the magnificent silverbacks continuously surveyed their surroundings. These creatures were so incredibly gentle and were clearly completely comfortable with having visitors. It was incredibly overwhelming to see so many human similarities in the gorillas and it’s hard to imagine that we are so closely related to these gentle giants. It felt like minutes and the 1-hour we had (the maximum allowed time to visit the gorillas) was over.
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