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Like other Gorilla species, the Western Lowland variety has a dominant male that leads the troop in all of their activities such as sleeping, traveling and of course eating. Finding food shouldn’t be too hard for these animals as they tend to feed on vegetation such as Bamboo and have been known to occasionally feast on insects or small reptiles. It is funny how some of the most powerful animals in the world spend their time eating vegetation or incredibly small animals. Don’t get me wrong, I am glad these majestic creatures don’t have a taste for human meat but I am still amused by the picture in my mind of a large, powerful Gorilla eating a teeny-tiny insect. Unfortunately, if we don’t stop destroying their rainforest home, the Western Lowland Gorilla’s food selection will be determined by their caretakers in the zoo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The last Wild Fact of the week is going to be about an amazing animal that many of you have probably seen wandering around the zoo. Yes, the Western Lowland Gorilla, which is a sub-species of the Western Gorilla, is the preferred species for zoos. Why? To be honest, I am not sure why there are 550 of them living in zoos throughout the world. Perhaps it has to do with their rainforest home being destroyed, so the zoos are the one place these animals are allowed to survive. Instead of visiting the zoo though, lets take a trip to <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60,4024],"tags":[348,505,3020,4025,3021,2928,2949,1353],"yoast_head":"\n
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