One of the favourite foods of massive, muscular #mountaingorillas is wild celery Peucedanum linderi. It tastes very like the #celery we grow, but with a stronger flavour and an after-taste some people find a bit bitter.
In this video, Ubumwe the #silverback leader of the #AmahoroGroup in Volcanoes Park Rwanda, demonstrates dextrously how to strip off the tough peel, revealing the tender green stalk inside. He seems sated, and pauses, seemingly wondering whether he can be bothered to pull up another plant (it was a hot day) but eventually does so anyway. Then a relaxed blackback male (an adolescent not yet old enough to have developed the silver saddle that is the mark of a mature male #gorilla) yawns, rolls over and ambles off to find his next morsel.
Enjoy this moment of mountain gorilla bliss , which becomes the 72nd #BrightenYourDay video, to encourage those in #Covid19 #lockdown to pause for a moment and consider other life-forms with whom we share the planet.
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