What adaptations do mountain gorillas have?

Answer 1

Behavior

A silverback is an adult male gorilla, typically more than 12 years of age and named for the distinctive patch of silver hair on his back. A silverback gorilla has large canines that come with maturity. Black backs are sexually mature males of up to 11 years of age.

Silverbacks are the strong, dominant troop leaders. Each typically leads a troop of 5 to 30 gorillas and is the center of the troop's attention, making all the decisions, mediating conflicts, determining the movements of the group, leading the others to feeding sites and taking responsibility for the safety and well-being of the troop.

Males will slowly begin to leave their original troop when they are about 11 years old, traveling alone or with a group of other males for 2-5 years before being able to attract females to form a new group and start breeding. While infant gorillas normally stay with their mother for 3-4 years, silverbacks will care for weaned young orphans, though never to the extent of carrying the little gorillas.

If challenged by a younger or even by an outsider male, a silverback will scream, beat his chest, break branches, bare his teeth, then charge forward. Sometimes a younger male in the group can take over leadership from an old male. If the leader is killed by disease, accident, fighting or poachers, the group will split up, as the animals disperse to look for a new protective male. Very occasionally, a group might be taken over in its entirety by another male. There is a strong risk that the new male may kill the infants of the dead silverback.

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Answer 2

Gorillas have many adaptations, here are a couple (but certainly not all):

Opposable thumbs: This is very useful. It enables their hands to effectively grip objects and manipulate them, allowing them to forage, make tools, and even groom.

Long arms: Useful for climbing.

Thin fur: Helps to keep gorillas cool.
its fur keeps it warm

Answer 3

they are big and very bulky animals, with not so much fur as others. their power that they have makes it easy to travel in long distances, which may be needed in their habitat, which is a jungle. In jungles it is harder to travel, so bigger animals like elephants, tigers, etc. would have an easier way of navigating.

Answer 4

One adaptation is that they have thin fur that keeps them cool

Answer 5

they have thumbs to help them grab thing un like other animals

Answer 6

The Mountain Gorillas have nimble fingers for picking nuts out of shells, and picking berries from fruit.
thick hair.