Gorillas By Logan

Table of Contents 1 Enemies 2 Habitat 3 Food 4 Babies 5 communication 6 Interesting facts 7Credits 8 Color

Enemies Gorillas don’t really have enemies apart from humans. The only predator to prey on gorillas is the leopard.

Habitat Western lowland gorillas inhabit tropical rain forests forest edges and clearing riverine forest swamps and abandoned cultivated fields in Africa.

Food Western lowland gorillas eat more fruit than other subspecies. Gorillas are very selective foragers. They usually only eat parts of vegetation. For example may eat only the leaves pith stalk or roots of a particular plan.

babies A newborn gorilla weighs about 1.4 to 1.8 kg ( 3-4 lb .). Newborn gorillas are totally dependent on their mother. An infant gorilla begins crawling at nine weeks

Communication 1 Gorillas produce more than 15 recognized vocalizations. Some sounds are used mainly for group communication because gorillas are nearly invisible to each other while feeding and traveling in the vegetation. 2 male gorillas roar and growl during aggressive behavior (dixson1981). Silver backs vocalize the most. 3 Infants whine cry and chuckle.

Interesting Facts Gorillas have powerful arms. Gorillas live in the jungle.

credits www. Sea world . Org/info books/Gorilla/sciclassgor.html www. Smh. com

color Gorillas are black and brown

Ending Comment I like it because it was fun I never done this before and I never learned about this stuff before.