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3. Mountain gorillas weigh from 200 to 400 pounds. Gorillas are extremely intelligent and can learn. The animals are peaceful, gentle, social, and vegetarian creatures.

4. Gorillas live in the tropical rain forest. They also live in wet lowlands, forests, and abandoned fields. Gorillas like to build nests in tress.

5. Mountain gorillas spend much of their time eating. Gorillas food includes a variety of plants along with a few insects and worms. The gorillas look for food all day in the forest.

6. Life for mountain gorillas isn’t all peaceful. Gorillas are endangered. They are threatened by civil war in a small area of Africa where they live.

7. I hope you learned a lot about gorillas.