The pair were moved out of an enclosure led by a silverback gorilla. Moving them was a nine-month process.
With all families, there comes a time when children reach a certain age and have to move out on their own.
As the Safari Park’s wildlife care director, Kristi Burtis, explains, troops have only one silverback, the name for breeding gorillas that have reached sexual maturity. In the wild, young males usually venture out on their own when they approach sexual maturity around 9 or 10 years old. They sometimes will form bachelor troops with other male gorillas their age, and around 15 they develop a silver section on their backs.
“Around 47 percent of gorillas are males, and not every one will become silverbacks that have the potential to breed,” Burtis said. “But that is our hope, to find situations where we can place silverbacks with females.” Park personnel about nine months ago began making modifications to a 3-acre area available for a new habitat for the two gorillas. Over that time, wildlife specialists also began working with Frank and Monroe so the move would not be traumatic.
“All of this was done under stimulus control, meaning they had choice to go into the unit,” Burtis said. “And it’s a step-by-step process. They literally would go into the transport unit while the wildlife care specialist would roll them out, reinforce them and roll them back in. You’d think, ‘My God, that takes a long time.’ It does.”
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