We share around 98% of our DNA with gorillas/  They can eat all day long/ Gorillas live around 35 years.

They eat roots, shoots, fruit, wild celery, and tree bark and pulp.

1. infant / 2. constant / 3. Juvenile / 4. habitat / 5. conflict

Mountain gorillas live in east-central Africa in just two isolated groups-one in the Virunga Volcanoes - and one in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda

For decades, they have been subjected to uncontrolled hunting, disease, habitat loss and the ravages of human conflict.  They are now considered endangered. 

They live in family groups of varying sizes, which consist of males, females, juveniles, and infants.

880 (The total world population of mountain gorillas has risen to 880)

Infants are in almost constant contact with their mothers for the first 6 months and nurse for about 2.5 to 3 years