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A gorilla is an ape. Apes are animals known as primates. There are four kinds of gorilla. There are only about 700 mountain gorillas and they live high in the mountains in two protected parks in Africa. Lowland gorillas live in central Africa.
Gorillas have big bodies and large heads. They have long, strong arms and hind legs that they use to walk.
You may have seen baby gorillas being carried on the back of their mothers, but for the first few months after birth the mother holds the baby gorilla to her chest. A mother gorilla has one baby at a time. Babies grow quickly. They drink their mother's milk and eat leaves adn fruits. Baby gorillas like to wrestle and play.
An adult male gorilla is called a silverback because of the distinctive silvery fur growing on their back and hips. Each gorilla family has a silverback as leader who scares away other animals by standing on their back legs and beating their chest!
Gorillas live in family groups called troops. There ar 5-30 gorillas in a troop. An older male gorilla called a silverback leads the troop. He helps them find food. He protects the troop from predators such as leopards.
Young male gorillas usually leave their family group when they are about 11 years old and have their own family group by the age of 15 years old. Young female gorillas join a new group at about 8 years old.
Gorillas are herbivores meaning they eat plants, and mostly have a vegetarian diet . They spend most of their day foraging for food and eating bamboo, leafy plants and sometimes small insects. Adult gorillas can eat up to 30 kilograms of food each day.
An adult gorilla is about 1 meter tall to their shoulders when walking on all fours using their arms and their legs.
A gorilla can live for 40 – 50 years, and about 35 years in the wild.
Gorillas are considered to be very intelligent animals. They are known for their use of tools and their varied communication. Some gorillas in captivity at a zoo have been taught to use sign language.
Gorillas are endangered animals. Their habitat is destroyed when people use the land for farming and the trees for fuel. Gorillas are also killed by poachers and sometimes get caught in poacher’s snares meant for other animals.
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STEP 1.
Use a pencil and a ruler to draw a straight line. Then draw an outline guide for the back legs for your cartoon gorilla. (the dotted lines in blue represent where the other sections of the gorilla will be drawn.)
STEP 2.
Now draw the front arms of your Cartoon Gorilla as shown in blue. Then draw the circle as shown in green, this will be your outine guide to help you to draw the shape of the head.
STEP 3.
Now draw draw the shape of the head as shown in red. Then erase the green circle. Next draw two circles for the eyes. Last draw the back feet and lines for the toes.
STEP 4.
Now draw the two front hands as shown in red. Then add the features of the face, and the ears as shown in blue. Last draw the shape of the outer eye
as shown in red.
STEP 5.
Draw the nostrils as shown in pink, and if you want to make your cartoon a GIRL GORILLA, you can add the eyelashes and a bow as shown in pink.
STEP. 6.
Now you can color in your black and white drawing with Crayola Crayons, pens, markers, colored pencils or water colors.
STEP. 7.
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