Baby silverback gorilla11/16/2023 ![]() ![]() Gorillas are incredibly intelligent creatures and beside that, they enjoy eating as their favorite activity, in a single day an adult male gorilla eats several hundred pounds approximately 19 kg of food. This happens at the mid-fall time when the dominant silverback joins the group and the baby gorillas is usually thrown off the cliff, another competition is when a competitor comes along and tries to dominate the group. The baby gorillas rarely eaten by the gorillas, but occasionally they are eaten. When the infant gorillas start eating solid food, they transition from deciduous to active birth. Here are the commonly asked questions about gorillas and baby gorillas.īaby gorilla feed on their mother’s milk which is an old method of feeding, the infant gorillas do not need their own dental work right away as they drink and depend on their mothers’ work. One population is found in Bwindi impenetrable national park and the second one is found in the Great Conservation Area comprising of Virunga national park in DRC, Volcanoes national park in Rwanda and Mgahinga Gorilla national park in Rwanda In conclusion, not all gorillas become silver backs but only males become at around the age of 12 years old.How much do Baby Gorilla Eat? Mountain gorillas are one of the most sought of animals on earth by travelers, these gorillas are very critically endangered animals with only two populations left in the world. The new silverback sometimes kills all the other male infants of the former silverback to avoid being threatened when they grow up.Ī silverback back from within the group can arise and fight the dominating silverback which is usually a brutal fight leading to the old silverback to live the group and be abandoned or the rising silverback to live the group. When a silverback gorilla dies abruptly, then the next mature male will take over the group leadership and if there is no other silverback in the group then it will be dispersed unless another lone silverback comes to take over the leadership. The upcoming males normally live the group and become lone males for some time until they form their own family or others fight the dominating silverback in order to take over the group. ![]() The dominating male in the family is the only one that can mate with all the group females and the females choose him for his size and strength. Silverbacks are always responsible for taking care of the group including protection from predators the silverback makes decisions on where to forage for food, where to sleep and also where the family travels every day. Silverbacks are also known to be the hairiest of all other gorillas, they are also very large forming 5.5 to 6 feet tall when they stand up right, a mature silverback can weigh up to 350 pounds, a large bony crest on the tops of their skulls and backs giving their heads a conical shape. Silverback back gorillas are called so because they develop a saddle shaped area of silver hair on their backs when they reach sexual maturity at about the age of 12 years old, they grey hair is for display and communication to other gorillas that they are mature males. You will see them when on gorilla trekking Uganda safaris or in Rwanda or DR Congo. The male gorillas that are mature and yet to develop silver hair are called black backs until they develop that patch of hair that is when the can be called silverbacks. Not all gorillas become silverbacks only male gorillas become silverbacks as they mature the female gorillas young males don’t develop silver hair on their backs hence they can’t be called silverbacks.
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