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<\/a>RANGER MATHIEU SHAMAVU –
The gorillas are apparently trying to imitate humans<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n
BBC<\/p>\n
Two gorillas have been photographed posing for a relaxed selfie with the rangers who rescued them as babies.<\/strong><\/p>\n The image was taken at a gorilla orphanage in Virunga National Park, DR Congo, where the animals were raised after poachers killed their parents.<\/p>\n The park’s deputy director told BBC Newsday that they had learned to imitate their carers, who have looked after them since they were found.<\/p>\n The gorillas, he added, think of the rangers as their parents.<\/p>\n Innocent Mburanumwe, deputy director of Virunga, told the BBC that that the gorillas’ mothers were both killed in July 2007.<\/p>\n The gorillas were just two and four months old at the time.<\/p>\n Shortly afterwards, they were found and taken to Senkwekwe Sanctuary in Virunga, where they have lived ever since.<\/p>\n Because they’ve grown up with the rangers who rescued them, Mr Mburanumwe added, “they are imitating the humans” – and standing on two legs is their way of “learning to be human beings”.<\/p>\n But it “doesn’t happen normally”, he said.<\/p>\n “I was very surprised to see it… so it’s very funny. It’s very curious to see how a gorilla can imitate a human and stand up.”<\/p>\n Being a ranger, however, is not always fun – it is mainly dangerous work.<\/p>\n\n