Astonishing pictures of the young gorillas who worked together to dismantle the poachers' trap that killed their friends

Rain's picture

DailyMail.co.uk

By Mark Prigg

PUBLISHED: 10:42 EST, 19 July 2012
UPDATED: 14:05 EST, 19 July 2012

Gorilla

The astonishing moment when two young mountain gorillas were spotted working together to find and destroy traps in their Rwandan forest home.


Just days after a poacher's snare had killed one of their own, two young mountain gorillas have been spotted working together to take apart poachers traps.

Staff at the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund were stunned when they spotted the plucky young duo, called Dukore and Rwema, destroying a trap in their forest home.

'Today our field staff observed several young gorillas from Kuryama’s group destroying snares!' Veronica Vecellio, gorilla program coordinator at the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund's Karisoke Research Center, which is in the reserve where the event took place, blogged.

 

To read the rest of this story and see more amazing photos, visit Mail Online.

Category: