The Gorilla is the Largest of the Primates - Great Apes

The gorilla is tallest of all the primates. It is a mammalian animal vegetarian. Its fur is entirely black. The scale of its arms reaches 2 meters, and if it often strikes them its chest is to impress because it is timid and peaceful.

Its sight is excellent and he sees the colors, his sense of smell also is very developed. The gorilla never drinks water, it finds of it enough in the plants that it eats.

He hates water and if he has to cross a river he will make fall a tree transversely not to wet itself. He has a great physical force and he can uproot small trees and tear off branches to eat the sheets of them.

He spends his days in the search of food and the come evening makes a bed of branches to sleep there. Some live in the mountain and others in the plains.

The gorilla of mountain is stronger than that of the plains, it is their only difference. Both live Africa. It moves on ground and does not climb with the trees except young people.

The gorilla lives in band with two or three females and their small. Into growing old his Grison fur one calls it “silver plated back” and it is him the chief of the clan. So by misfortune a female dies, it adopts its small.

From the point of view of the reproduction, the male is not hastened and the female must make him its advances for the coupling. The reproduction is done at any time. The female has its first baby at the 10 years age. It will carry its small for 9 months and thereafter will nurse it for 18 months, but the small one will remain with it during at least 3 years. It will not go before the age from 5 to 6 months.

The female gives rise to small at every four years, it will have only 7 small in all its life. The gorilla is a protected space, its survival is in danger because of deforestation and the man who makes the poaching of it.

The lifespan of the gorilla is of 35-40 years and 50 years in captivity.