🔊SOUND ON🔊 Gorilla communication is amazing! Sometimes silverbacks display to solicit the group to move after resting. Here you can see Ishavu displaying with hooting and pulling down a vine to get everyone’s attention, and it looks like it worked! #nature #conservation #nature #mountaingorillas 📸: Thadee Muhire | Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund

In this #gorilla family, living in #Uganda, there are 13 members and each plays an important role, especially the group’s elder Rukumu. Although by human standards, the age 30 is far from old, Rukumu oversees the group and is in his early 30s. He was presumably the dominant silverback back in his prime, but now enjoys his peaceful gorilla retirement by playing with the younger ones and teaching them the fundamentals of chest beating. 🦍 For more about this incredible species in #WildAfricaMonth,