Parrilla 1
Nicholas parrilla
Mrs.finkenbinder
4th english
12 May 2017
Mountain Gorilla
The largest living primate in the world is the Mountain Gorilla. In the movies they make them look really terrifying, but reality they are gentle and shy creatures. Gorillas are really nice and sweet animals. I really like them because they are fluffy. Mountain Gorillas are really big, powerful, and strong animals. Males can grow up to 5 foot and a weight of 198 the gorilla’s skull is really massive. Adults have a really massive crest. Their brain is smaller compared to the human.
Gorillas have different hands than humans. Their feet are adapted for life on the ground and their thumbs are in line almost like humans. They can also manipulate the …show more content…
Poachers helped to reduce the Virunga Mountain Gorilla population from about 500 in 1960 to 240 in 1980.
In some areas, lowland gorillas are killed because they are considered a crop fest. Some gorillas sleep in nest. These nest are made of branches and leaves. Some of them may grab a snack while on the move, or if they don’t get snacks while on the move they would just sit down and eat a snack. Gorillas can eat shoots, leaves, and stems. They all reach out in different …show more content…
Their trees get chopped down, population begins to grow, they plant pyrethrum plant grown for pesticides, and poachers. The mountain gorillas home get taken away from them as more and more people need space in which to live. This forest destruction was once the major cause of the reduction in gorilla numbers. In rwanda, for example, the population is rapidly expanding. People need to cut down the trees and bamboo to build their homes. In recent years, poaching patrols on the Rwandan side of the border have considerably reduced the killing of adult gorillas and the smuggling of babies. Six patrols, each with four to six men, comb the mountains forest to look for signs of poachers. Each ranger finding a wire or hemp snare gets paid a bonus. Often the rangers find 100 traps in a day. They have removed many thousands of snares and traps and caught many poachers who were put in jail and out of business however. The national park is to difficult to patrol it is over 60 km (37 mi) long and just 2 km (1.2 mi) wide in places. Furthermore, it runs along the frontier of three nation. Poachers can enter the national park land from Zaire. Foreign tourists visiting Africa have been taking home gruesome curios. Gorilla hands and feet have been sold for about $22 each as novelty ashtrays. Gorilla teeth are used to make ‘ethnic’ jewelry and other ornaments. Their heads are stuffed and sold as macabre ornaments during one year 30 skulls intended for
Nicholas parrilla
Mrs.finkenbinder
4th english
12 May 2017
Mountain Gorilla
The largest living primate in the world is the Mountain Gorilla. In the movies they make them look really terrifying, but reality they are gentle and shy creatures. Gorillas are really nice and sweet animals. I really like them because they are fluffy. Mountain Gorillas are really big, powerful, and strong animals. Males can grow up to 5 foot and a weight of 198 the gorilla’s skull is really massive. Adults have a really massive crest. Their brain is smaller compared to the human.
Gorillas have different hands than humans. Their feet are adapted for life on the ground and their thumbs are in line almost like humans. They can also manipulate the …show more content…
Poachers helped to reduce the Virunga Mountain Gorilla population from about 500 in 1960 to 240 in 1980.
In some areas, lowland gorillas are killed because they are considered a crop fest. Some gorillas sleep in nest. These nest are made of branches and leaves. Some of them may grab a snack while on the move, or if they don’t get snacks while on the move they would just sit down and eat a snack. Gorillas can eat shoots, leaves, and stems. They all reach out in different …show more content…
Their trees get chopped down, population begins to grow, they plant pyrethrum plant grown for pesticides, and poachers. The mountain gorillas home get taken away from them as more and more people need space in which to live. This forest destruction was once the major cause of the reduction in gorilla numbers. In rwanda, for example, the population is rapidly expanding. People need to cut down the trees and bamboo to build their homes. In recent years, poaching patrols on the Rwandan side of the border have considerably reduced the killing of adult gorillas and the smuggling of babies. Six patrols, each with four to six men, comb the mountains forest to look for signs of poachers. Each ranger finding a wire or hemp snare gets paid a bonus. Often the rangers find 100 traps in a day. They have removed many thousands of snares and traps and caught many poachers who were put in jail and out of business however. The national park is to difficult to patrol it is over 60 km (37 mi) long and just 2 km (1.2 mi) wide in places. Furthermore, it runs along the frontier of three nation. Poachers can enter the national park land from Zaire. Foreign tourists visiting Africa have been taking home gruesome curios. Gorilla hands and feet have been sold for about $22 each as novelty ashtrays. Gorilla teeth are used to make ‘ethnic’ jewelry and other ornaments. Their heads are stuffed and sold as macabre ornaments during one year 30 skulls intended for