Gorillas have been documented for picking up frogs and petting them.ġ3. There was a gorilla name Michael who learned sign language and then described what it was like to watch his mother be killed by poachers.ġ2. At one point, he even asked for a pet cat as a birthday gift, which it named “All Ball.” When the cat died in an accident, Koko expressed his grief through sign language.ġ1. Koko the gorilla is believed to have mastered sign language. Gorilla are able to make songs and hum tunes during their mealtimes.ġ0. The only known albino gorilla is called Snowflake and he live sin the Barcelona Zoo.ĩ. Chalicothere was an animal that was a crossbreed between a gorilla and a horse.Ĩ. Gorillas can use human birth control pills.ħ. Mike Tyson once offered a zoo attendant $10,000 top open the cage of a bullying gorilla so that he could beat him up. Jambo guarded the young boy against other gorillas by acting as a barrier between them and the child.ĥ.
On August 31, 1986, a gorilla name Jambo saved a 5 year old who fell unconscious after falling into the gorilla encampment. That’s why the Cleveland Metro Park Zoo made them eat double the amount of leaves they initially ate, which led to them losing 65 pounds and finally being less likely to have heart disease.Ĥ. In North America, a lot of lowland gorillas die due to heart disease. The scientific name for the Western African gorilla is “Gorilla gorilla.” The lowland subspecies are called “Gorilla gorilla gorilla.”ģ.
The world “gorilla” comes from the Greek word, “Gorillai,” which means “hairy women.”Ģ. Take a look below for 28 more interesting and fun facts about gorillas.ġ. The Gorilla genus is divided into two species, the eastern gorillas and the western gorilla, with 5 known subspecies. Gorillas are herbivorous apes that live in the forests of central Sub-Saharan Africa.
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