Meet The Gorillas

I woke up this morning in Kinigi, in the north of Rwanda, at the foot of five huge volcanoes. It is here that the dramatically dubbed 'Last of the Mountain Gorillas' live. I spent an hour in their company - in the beginning too close for comfort but as the hour progressed I got taken in by these magnificent creatures. No wonder they're on the verge of extinction: if you let three Germans and me that closeby without getting annoyed, any poacher with some knowledge about primate behaviorism will find it easy to kill one of these giants.
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I used the video functionality of the Sony photocamera to shoot a couple of short clips of the gorillas in action: they had just eaten a big lunch of bamboo shoots, which gets them kind of high and very cheerful...