Gorillas

Lizbeth

TABLE OF CONTENts

Family Structure

Interesting Facts Bibliography

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Habitat Food and Water

Daily Behavior

Food and Water• Plants, fruit, leaves, stalks, shoots and stems• 45 pounds of food a day• Drink mother’s milk

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Daily Behavior• Sleep 15 hours a day• Make a new nest every night• Play fight or wrestle• Swing on branches and vines• Early morning they eat leaves, buds, and fruit

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Habitat• Central Africa in low Eastern mountains in

Congo• Moist Tropical forests• New nest every night• Close to food

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Family Structure• Female feeds the young• Males stay when babies are born• Male is in charge• Meet other gorillas• Treat young with love• Live in herds

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Interesting Facts• Black or gray• Intelligent as a human been• Only have 1 baby• Taught sign language• 600 gorillas left• Endangered species• Few babies are born• Loose homes and food• Illegal hunting gorillas• Can loose fingers, hands or toes• Use nose prints to indentify individual animals

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BibliographyBlackford, Harriet. Gorilla’s Story. New York:

Boxer Books, 2009.

Jacob, Liza. Gorillas. Farmington Hills: Black birch, 2003.

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