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Do you know who I am?
You might not recognize me, but I'm one of your closest relatives.
That's right, I'm a gorilla.
Let me show you around my world.
Let's take a trip together and meet the rest of the family.
I belong to the great ape family.
We are not monkeys.
Monkeys have tails, but apes do not.
Apes all have long, strong arms.
We are intelligent, and we can do many things that humans can do.
Gorillas are not the only great apes.
Let me introduce you to the others.
In Southeast Asia, there's an ape called the orangutan.
The word orangutan means forest person.
Orangutans live in tropical forests, and they live most of their lives high in the trees.
They use their long arms to swing through the trees, looking for fruit to eat.
A smaller member of the ape family is the chimpanzee.
You can recognize chimpanzees by their big ears, big eyes, and cute face.
They are really smart, and good with their hands.
They also learn how to do new things easily.
Now we come to my family, the mountain gorillas.
Like the chimpanzees, we live on the continent of Africa.
We live right in the middle of the African rainforest.
It's not too hot, because we live in some very high mountains.
Welcome to my home.
These are the Virunga Mountains.
They are a great place for gorillas to live.
These mountains are old volcanoes, and they are covered in thick forests with lots of good things to eat.
They are very high, so the weather is cool and it rains a lot.
We like to live in family groups.
Usually, there are between five and ten gorillas in a family.
We live together, and we eat together.
We also travel through the mountains in a group, looking for food.
How many can you count in this family?
The father of the family is called a silverback because he has silver hair on his back.
He is the biggest gorilla in the family.
This silverback weighs 190 kilograms.
When he stands up, he is as tall as a man.
The other gorillas in the family are females, young gorillas, and babies.
Here's a mother gorilla with her little baby.
The baby feeds on its mother's milk for more than two years.
Soon the baby will learn to ride on its mother's back.
What are these young gorillas doing? They are playing.
They are having a lot of fun.
Young gorillas like to play games, and many of these games help them to learn.
Gorillas become adults when they are about eleven years old.
Gorillas need to eat a lot of food every day, we eat flowers and leaves, and sometimes we need our strong teeth to get the best food out of the plants.
We also like to eat ants and worms.
Gorillas love delicious fruit, but it's sometimes hard to find in the rainforest.
Every day, we walk a long way to find food.
As we walk, we pick up food from the ground.
We also pick leaves and fruit off the bushes and trees.
I spend most of the day eating, and when I'm not eating, I'm resting.
Each family has its favorite places to look for food.
When night-time comes, we make nests to sleep in.
Small gorillas make nests in trees, and big gorillas make nests out of grass and leaves.
We love sleeping so much. We even stop to sleep in the daytime.
What is this gorilla doing?
He thinks that his family is in danger.
He's standing up and showing his teeth.
Gorillas are usually peaceful animals, but when we have to, we stamp our feet and beat our chests.
We scream and roar to protect our family.
Some people hurt gorillas.
They cut down the rainforest and so we have nowhere to live.
People and gorillas can live together, though.
There are not many of us left, and we need your help.
After all, we are one of your closest relatives.