Mountain Gorillas

 This is a mountain gorilla. He is a silver back a leader of a gorilla pack. You can tell he is a silver back because of his light whitish silvery gray back.

           This is a gorilla family.The silver back takes care of all the females because he has mated all of them. He will protect them from any harm the silver back is gentle to all the baby's in the group , but we will get to that later.

              If another gorilla comes to try to horas the group the silver back will show its teeth and pound its chest they never really fight they just try to scare each other off. The mountain gorilla charges the other gorilla runs off the silver back snorts and leads his family to a safer place.

     Remember when I said on how silver backs are so nice well here it is. The so called dad is giving the baby a ride because the mom is tired or she is doing something else.

       Gorillas greatest fear is humans poachers will set traps for the gorillas and when they walk through them a trap will spring if the gorillas don't get the other gorilla out in time the spikes will dig in to the skin and the skin will get infected. many gorillas are falling and we need to act fast they are the 3 closest animal endangered and i'm going to raise money to help them out buddy (nown as leo on moms blog) is researching on leopards and soon will get to do a report and I will stick it on the blog, Little miss is doing pandas and her report is on the blog also, buddy's friend ADOG is doing komodo dragons, Little miss's friend princess is doing the tiger, and my friend MJ is doing the zebra.

    Each year gorillas are dying they have to travle more and more to find new places to live at.

           The gorillas go into hiding to find food and water they are vegetarians so they have plenty to eat until people come along and wipe out there land they take there fur and use it for coats.

     Baby gorillas are getting wiped out because people are afraid they will get older and stronger and will take over there land. People have a game for if you get the most mountain gorillas you will get a lot of money. People sell them to the black market all over the world.

               Thats why scientists are trying to study them and learn more about there life cycle, but people are afraid that there life is coming to a end there are only 700 of them left in the wild we need to help them before they come to extinction.