Sentences with phrase «silverback male»

In zoos, all gorillas sing, but Luef found that in the wild, it is mainly the dominant silverback male from each group that makes these sounds while eating.

But although every individual in the zoo sings for its supper, Luef found that in the wild it was generally only dominant silverback males that sang and hummed while eating.

Not exact matches

This photo shows a gorilla family in southeast Cameroon (minus the alpha male silverback, who managed to get away) that had been slaughtered in their nests by a bushmeat hunter early one morning.

These robust australopithecines chose a risky mating strategy: Top males invested energy in bodybuilding in order to possess a harem of females, much like silverback gorillas do today.»