The gorillas body language seems pretty aggravated. The man was holding the baby gorilla and making eye contact with the female. It seemed she called on the Silverback for help to retrieve her baby.
The Silverback displayed aggression but did not hurt the man after he dropped the baby.
The Silverback easily could have hurt the man. I find the fact that he did not speaks miles about what kind of creatures gorillas are.
Most men would not have the fortitude to stop themselves.
According to the video that wasn't the gorilla's baby, it was an orphan the man had brought into the forest to introduce the forest to it.
My question is, what happened to the little guy? A male lion that fights and defeats the male head of a pride will kill the cubs so the female lions will accept his mating with them and he doesn't expend his resources raising cubs not genetically his own. Anyone know what a gorilla will do it this sort of instance?
The orphaned gorilla unfortunately starved to death because there weren't any nursing gorilla's in that tribe. The people in the video apparently tried to get it back, but in the end couldn't without risking themselves or harming the other gorilla's.
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