These days in August we have seen Kabuli, the youngest of the gorillas in the male group, get into the estuary of his enclosure, a very unusual attitude for these animals when they are in captivity.

Friday, August 16, 2013. The gorillas don't know how to swim, just like other large primates such as orangutans, chimpanzees and, of course, humans. For that reason, they are very cautious in this environment.

At Bioparc Valencia, the habitats of origin are faithfully recreated, so that the animals are in an environment that is as natural as possible. Kabuli, one of the male gorillas, has begun to develop behaviors that can practically only be seen in the African jungles.

In nature we can see how in the BAI of the jungle the gorillas they use sticks or branches to explore the depth in the estuaries to detect how far they can safely enter. Are very natural instincts which we can now surprisingly observe in this species in captivity as its keepers and many visitors discovered a few days ago. It is an image, therefore, rarely or not at all common in gorillas that were born and live in captivity.

The group of males of Bioparc is made up of 3 gorillas males: Sure 29 years old, from Blackpool Zoo in England who arrived in 2008, Thomas 11 years old from Rotterdam Zoo and Kabuli of the Frankfurt Zoo which turns 9 this October. The two young people arrived at Bioparc in 2009.

gorillas They live in nature in two types of groups, the reproductive ones, made up of a male and several females and their offspring and those of “single males”, to which the individuals join when they stop being offspring when their sexual instinct develops. It is in these groups where the youngest learn from the adults. In the case of Bioparc, that role of teacher is represented by Jitu.

The Valencian park allocates an area of ​​3.269 m2 for the gorillas' space, divided between that for the males and that for the reproductive group, where we can see the family with the small baby. Ebo.