Exchanging a glance with a gorilla
Monday, March 19th, 2007
‘There is more meaning and mutual understanding in exchanging a glance with a gorilla than any other animal I know.’
An estimated 500 million people worldwide heard Sir David Attenborough whisper those words as he lay next to a 100kg female gorilla in Rwanda nearly 30 years ago.
His encounter with the gorillas in the BBC natural history series Life on Earth is one of television’s most memorable.
At Loro Parque in Tenerife, you can’t get quite as close to the gorillas as David Attenborough did all those years ago.
But, as the pictures above and below show, you do get a pretty good view of the park’s gorilla enclosure, which covers 3,500 square metres and houses six gorillas in conditions very like their native habitat.
The six gorillas are part of an experimental group on loan from various European zoos and form part of a breeding ...
Posted by Ken
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