The Brookfield Zoo Western lowland gorillas are getting a new leader, 26-year-old Jontu, from the Saint Louis Zoo.
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"We will slowly introduce them. ... Their introductions can be really aggressive sometimes, and we don't know how it's going to go because it's a stranger coming into somebody else's territory," Snyder said. As for Zachary, he'll be hanging out with the other guys in St. Louis before he's introduced to the female gorillas.
"In the wild, male gorillas, once they reach a certain age - it's anywhere from 6 to 13, depending on the troop and the situation - what they'll do is leave the troop they were born into and they'll either be solitary in the wild or they'll join small groups of males. We're kind of mimicking that here, by sending him to St. Louis to join a bachelor group," Snyder said.
Western lowland gorillas are considered critically endangered. There are about 300,000 of them found in swamps and dry lowland forests throughout Western Equatorial Africa.
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