Gorillas Ndakazi and Ndeze have gained instant celebrity by posing — on two feet — in a photograph with park rangers at the Virunga National Park in Congo.
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The rangers posted a selfie on Facebook late last week showing two orphaned female gorillas, Ndakazi and Ndeze, standing tall beside them in the Senkwekwe Center for orphaned mountain gorillas. A park official said the gorillas appeared to be imitating their caregivers, who had raised them.Innocent Mburanumwe, deputy director of Virunga National Park, told BBC Newsday that, in the picture, the apes look like humans, “like soldiers saluting a flag.
Virunga National Park said in a Facebook post on Monday that the photo is real, saying, “Those gorilla gals are always acting cheeky so this was the perfect shot of their true personalities! Also, it’s no surprise to see these girls on their two feet either — most primates are comfortable walking upright for short bursts of time.
“Anthropologists make a big deal about humans being bipedal, but it really is not hard at all for apes,” he added. Through work with psychologist Francine “Penny” Patterson, Koko appeared to learn an adapted version of American Sign Language dubbed “Gorilla Sign Language,” or GSL. However, scientists have long debated to what extent the gorilla understood that language.
Ndakazi and Ndeze were taken to Virunga National Park’s mountain gorilla orphanage in summer 2007 after their mothers were killed in poaching incidents, Mburanumwe told BBC Newsday. He said that, at the time, one gorilla was about 2 months old and the other was about 4 months old.
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