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00:00A giant bird with the ability to fly all over the world.
00:05Then comes the evolution.
00:09A population of as many as 100,000 gorillas.
00:14The evolution offers us another opportunity to protect this large monkey, which is at risk.
00:20But we also have the opportunity to see some unprecedented species.
00:25To see here also the law of the use of tools.
00:29Primatology and Exploration of National Geographic, I am Mireille Mayor,
00:33a tourist in the winter of Congo, to learn the secrets of the mysterious gorilla.
00:55A group of students is in search of one of the largest monkeys,
01:11the smallest known in the world.
01:18A population of as many as 100,000 gorillas.
01:26Their mission is to protect.
01:49The members of this group ask each other to identify.
01:55Gorillas have taught that there must be fear in humans, and this fear can be aggression.
02:17We are in a cage, among the gorillas of fruit trees.
02:21It's a gorilla of our size.
02:25But they are ready to attack.
02:30Gorilla attack.
02:58After a few seconds, the gorillas are gone,
03:00falling into the wall of the cage.
03:04This is a very fast-growing monkey.
03:11You saw how the gorillas live in this area,
03:14but there was no one to go to the forest.
03:17In order to have the opportunity to learn,
03:19Mireille joins the students of the Society for the Protection of the Fauna.
03:24They want to know the secrets of their environment,
03:27and how their society works.
03:30If anyone can get close to the gorillas, it's this group.
03:34So this means that we are close.
03:39They develop their search in a small territory,
03:42in the confluence of the Republic of Congo with the Republic of Central Africa.
03:48It's a country called Mondika.
03:53The student groups have been very successful in their work.
03:57This is a male gorilla, and his family has raised him to the point where they accept him.
04:03If they find him, this will be a good opportunity for Mireille
04:06to get acquainted with the gorillas of Mondika.
04:12Patricy can recognize the gorillas here more than anyone else.
04:16But he is not the only tourist who has been affected by the pandemic in the country.
04:20This is a group of gorillas.
04:22Sometimes they come from the outside world as pigments.
04:31They have circulated in this place to look for food,
04:34and have been trapped for a long time.
04:37They have been trapped for a long time.
04:52Patricy, what's happening?
04:55It's Kingo, a two-year-old male gorilla.
05:04His black and white stripes show that he is a young male, a Chorizardian.
05:11His black and white stripes show that he is a young male, a Chorizardian.
05:19Kingo is a Chorizardian.
05:33Kingo is a Chorizardian.
05:38If Kingo goes somewhere far away, we have to find him.
05:43160 kg of muscle makes a Brazilian presentation.
05:56Kingo Yaboli is the full name of Kingo,
05:59which means Z, Z-Iran.
06:02Yaboli means Iran.
06:05Is he strong?
06:07Yes, a strong man.
06:12He is not alone.
06:14The gorilla families are divided.
06:17One male takes care of the females as best as he can.
06:20The females take care of Kingo at the same time.
06:24There are four females.
06:26One of them has the same hair as Polindor.
06:28The other two have the same hair.
06:30And one female has no hair at all,
06:33but is a member of the same group.
06:36The four females of the group are two young males.
06:47Koso is coming down.
06:50Koso is following Kendo.
06:53Koso is being provoked.
06:56They want to play.
07:06Koso is four years old,
07:09and is trying to control the little boy,
07:12who is too old to act as a clone.
07:19Only a few of the gorillas of the Perndimore Zoo
07:22have allowed people to take care of the boy.
07:27The process, known as protection,
07:30has lasted eight years.
07:34The studies show that the protection of the gorillas
07:37of the Perndimore Zoo was impossible,
07:40because the environment was very dense,
07:43and because the gorillas were afraid of predators,
07:46so if they saw a human, they would be afraid.
07:49But now we are very close to a silver lion.
07:54But Kingo and his family are not alone.
07:57There are other gorillas,
08:01but Kingo and his family are not alone.
08:04The research of the Perndimore Zoo
08:07has shown that the number of gorillas living here
08:10is very high.
08:13But the increase in the number of wild animals
08:16in this territory has not been easy.
08:25Here, here, there is a stork.
08:28The storks are a small group of gorillas.
08:31They are the reason for the increase
08:34in the number of gorillas living here.
08:37Every day they create a nest with elastic threads
08:40in the ground or in the ground.
08:49Explorations in the 19th century show
08:52that this area is a wild habitat,
08:55that gorillas live here,
08:58and that they must be protected from all kinds of predators.
09:01To verify this, the numbers must be confirmed.
09:04In 2006, the Shokyat Research Institute
09:07found up to 26,000 square kilometers
09:10of Congo birds.
09:13After that, they departed to the protected areas
09:16and numbered every stork they found.
09:19From the number of storks,
09:22to the number of gorillas.
09:25Their number is incredible,
09:28more than 100,000.
09:31This discovery surprises the world population
09:34as much as possible,
09:37but the strength of these gorillas
09:40can be measured by this species as it appears.
09:43The storks are capable of crossing rivers
09:46as well as, if possible,
09:49as well as scientific subjects.
09:52They have begun to teach us about their shock,
09:55how they live and how they think.
10:10Primatologist Mireya Meyor
10:13and a student of the Shokyat,
10:16discover the storks and their families.
10:23They find them with their favorite hobby,
10:26fishing.
10:33Fishing is a factor that separates
10:36the stork gorillas from other types of gorillas.
10:40Unlike the giant gorillas,
10:43which swim around a giant bowl of salad
10:46in the pool and eat fish every day,
10:49the stork gorillas eat more fruits.
10:52This is the best time of the year
10:55because the fruits are in season
10:58and they enjoy their favorite food.
11:01Here are some of the fruits they eat.
11:04King's diet and his clan
11:07provide a large amount of food.
11:10The storks eat a lot of fruit
11:13and vegetables,
11:16but they are not only vegetarians
11:19because they eat a lot of fish and termites.
11:28The stork does not eat fish at the same time.
11:31Patrice, what's happening?
11:34I don't know if there is another stork.
11:38We have to be careful.
11:46So he heard another stork in the distance
11:49and he became vigilant.
11:58Also, when you see...
12:01Now we see a very tense gorilla.
12:04Yes.
12:07The Stork has the largest territory
12:10of gorillas.
12:13Kingo has a territory of 10 km,
12:16but the storks are insecure
12:19and full of other groups.
12:22Kingo struggles to parallelize
12:25the movement of his clans
12:28and to defeat the new ones.
12:37With self-confidence,
12:40he goes straight to the undetected stork.
12:44At that moment, I knew
12:47that I was not afraid of this man.
12:52It is normal for the stork
12:55to defend his territory,
12:58to defend the right of the stork
13:01and not to be afraid of being killed.
13:04It is dangerous.
13:07Another stork can kill the storks.
13:10It is a dangerous situation
13:13not only for Kingo and the undetected stork
13:16but also for Kingo and his clans.
13:19Another stork can put their storks at risk
13:23but Kingo will not give up.
13:26He will follow his steps.
13:42He needs Kingo to defend
13:45his territory.
13:53The undetected storks
13:56are not afraid of the undetected storks.
13:59If Kingo is surrounded
14:02by other clans,
14:05he will be in danger.
14:08But now he is nervous
14:11and ready for the conflict.
14:14The stork is the dominant part
14:17of the group.
14:23Even though the undetected stork
14:26is a bluff,
14:29an exposition of its physical strength,
14:32it conveys a clear message.
14:35Clearly, the undetected stork
14:38is the leader of the group
14:41and if he wants to go somewhere,
14:44he goes.
14:47You know, Kingo, like the undetected stork,
14:50is a very strong stork.
15:13The structure of a gorilla's activity
15:16is very sporadic.
15:19The storks are the biggest part
15:22of the day,
15:25a part of the day
15:28they are hunting
15:31and the rest of the day
15:34they are hunting.
15:44They travel 2.5 km
15:47every day in two or three short days.
16:07When they find a place
16:10with a lot of mangoes,
16:13they go there.
16:17After the harvest,
16:20they go to the forest.
16:37It is the time of the forest,
16:40I mean for everything,
16:43but both the stork and the stork
16:46have a lot of energy.
16:51The storks pollinate in the sand here.
17:05The stork is in the intermediate phase
17:08of breeding and maturing
17:11because they know how the roads just yet.
17:14The stork is the majority of the group,
17:17but the stork is not the only one
17:20that is innocent.
17:24The stork and the stork
17:27pollinate together a lot more.
17:30They tend to eat less
17:33and now they are blessed
17:36by their father, Kingo.
17:39Kingo found this small field
17:42and as you can see,
17:45both storks are pregnant.
17:48They are in the middle of the forest
17:51when the storks spend a lot of time
17:54with their father.
17:57They still have a lot of energy.
18:01Wherever they go,
18:04they start to smell the scent of a stork,
18:07even if this means
18:10that the storks will die soon.
18:36They imitate their father
18:39by playing with the storks' feathers.
18:54The older they get,
18:57the more they tolerate the storks.
19:02We are so lucky that Kingo
19:05trusts us and helps us a lot.
19:08This is really something special.
19:21The storks seem to be
19:24getting used to this environment.
19:29The storks suspect that they are
19:32going straight to a part of the forest
19:35called Bongo.
19:40Kingo has another plan.
19:43He will use the storks' feathers
19:46as bait.
19:50The storks are getting used
19:53to the environment,
19:56and Kingo is ready
19:59to protect his family.
20:03But when the group of storks
20:06leaves the forest,
20:09the storks are silent.
20:12Kingo is afraid
20:15that the storks will leave
20:18and that there will be no problem.
20:23The storks pretend
20:26that they have found a way
20:29to trap Kingo.
20:33The storks are always
20:36trying to figure out
20:39why these storks are more aggressive.
20:42It's only been a few years
20:45that the storks have found
20:48a way to trap Kingo.
20:52But that was very easy
20:55for a female to lay out
20:58this group of storks
21:01and swans,
21:04and what are we going to do now,
21:07ladies?
21:09We're going to lay out the swans.
21:12Even if the gorillas leave,
21:15Mireia and the group of storks
21:18must stay alert.
21:21It's not going to work, is it?
21:27That's not how it's done.
21:30That's not how it's done.
21:33Yeah, I'm in shambles.
21:42It's really difficult to get
21:45the balance right in these swamps,
21:48so instinctively you go around
21:51the first swamp that's nearest
21:54and the second swamp that's farthest.
21:57And when you're in the swamps,
22:00you can find the swamps,
22:03and the insects bite more
22:06than the gorillas are doing.
22:09Nice.
22:18Oh, I've got a small insect bite
22:21right in my ass in my hair.
22:31Oh, nice.
22:35Today is a bath in the swamp.
22:39Ayoge and the rest of the gorillas here can be used for hunting.
22:46In particular, Kanguasica, a species with a lot of hunting ground,
22:50which is found only in the Mocean.
22:52This species can be used more often for females than for males.
22:56As the dominant leader, it is the first one, even when the hunt is on.
23:02Females have nowhere to hide.
23:04When they are in the Mocean, even their claws can be used for hunting.
23:16Kanguas are released from the Mocean and this is a great thing,
23:19because everything you see is in the Mocean.
23:22I'm with Kanguas in this case.
23:24I see three layers.
23:29But leaving the forest does not mean that they are out of danger.
23:35On the way home, they come across one of the largest creatures in the jungle,
23:40a wild elephant.
23:44If the females are afraid of something, it is this elephant.
23:48They kill a lot of females.
24:05They run extremely fast, and they know how to get to the fifth wheel.
24:17As soon as the elephant leaves, they run away.
24:20Luckily, Kanguasica is not afraid of them.
24:23Kanguasica is not afraid of them.
24:25Kanguasica is not afraid of them.
24:27Kanguasica is not afraid of them.
24:29Kanguasica is not afraid of them.
24:31When the elephant leaves, they run away.
24:34Luckily, Kanguasica is not afraid of them.
24:41The Kanguas are ready to spend the night.
24:47Mireia has Kanguas' fear, but also her tolerance.
24:51She has also the way that the females can influence her decisions.
24:56But again and again, the board is not complete.
24:59With a large population of gorillas, different groups are afraid of each other.
25:04The girls of the Mondic tribe are not afraid to see what happens in such a case.
25:11It is another study that can offer a piece of the puzzle,
25:15where Mireia can see what happens when gorillas fight with each other.
25:29In the first few years, the Kanguas basin looks like a pandora's box.
25:34100,000 gorillas can easily hide in this pool,
25:37but a glance from afar reveals a mysterious natural beauty.
25:43The edges of the rocky mountains are called bays.
25:50These are the magnets of the wild fauna,
25:52and they attract the eyes of predators to each other.
25:59This bay is another study center of the Society for Wildlife Conservation.
26:10Here Dr. Tomas Brueri takes the 4th place,
26:13and the camera lens of the winners.
26:17Elephants of the tribe.
26:19Citadels.
26:24Primates, but these are gorillas for entertainment.
26:30They come here with dozens,
26:32attracted by the gentle care given by others.
26:38In 2003, Brueri records a historical moment.
26:43Something that no other gorilla has ever done before.
26:48Creation and reproduction of a baby.
26:52Primatology Mireia Meor,
26:54was very close to the success of these female gorillas.
27:00Mbeli Bay
27:04Mbeli Bay is the largest study center of the wild gorillas,
27:08as well as a place for them to spread their mysterious networks,
27:12interactions with other groups,
27:14and species that can not be seen in the pool.
27:17These together make up the table of these very mysterious gorillas.
27:23All studies in Mbeli Bay are made by an observation platform.
27:29It offers a good panoramic view of the activities from a long distance.
27:38This place is very nice.
27:41It makes me happy to be here.
27:43Yes, it's a beautiful place.
27:46How many gorillas come here normally?
27:49At the moment, we have 14 groups,
27:52but there are also single males.
27:55In total, we have 120 gorillas.
27:59And do all the gorillas come here at the same time?
28:03It takes a while, but after three months,
28:06they make the first features.
28:08They do like you and me.
28:10They are very distinctive.
28:12Mbeli Bay offers a panoramic view of many groups.
28:16Today, Bay is dominated by a gorilla named George.
28:21So, this is George?
28:23Yes, and he is with a female that you must have heard about.
28:27She is called Leah.
28:29She is called Leah.
28:31And she is called Mbeli Bay.
28:33Mbeli Bay is the largest study center of the wild gorillas,
28:37as well as a place for them to spread their mysterious networks,
28:41and to find out where they are.
28:43This is the female gorilla that uses her legs.
28:46That's her?
28:47Yes.
28:49One day, in 2003, Leah goes to the bay and shows her body.
28:58So, that's Leah.
29:00And you see, she has a little tail where there are the elephants.
29:05And they have created a new field where they dig for soil.
29:10As you can see in the photo, they dig there and they see water.
29:17Leah, as she said, is a female, and the gorillas don't know her.
29:21She has a problem, and they know her, and they create her body.
29:28She got the tail.
29:31By definition, this is not a female gorilla, but she detached it.
29:37And she was doing this movement, and she moved with it.
29:46And she decided to go somewhere else.
29:48She decided to go somewhere else to prove that her tail was water.
29:51She doesn't have a tail.
29:53No doubt, yes.
29:55Leah's testimony shows that the gorillas have the same body as the female.
30:00And that's not the only thing.
30:03A few days later, another female goes to the bay to show her balance while she asks for help.
30:14Thomas, however, asks for help in these remote areas.
30:18He thinks that if the gorillas live close to here,
30:21they will live even in the middle of the village, away from people's eyes.
30:26At this moment, in the bay, there is no need for a citizen.
30:31Leah's favorite fruit, the gorilla's favorite fruit, is ripe, and it grows well.
30:38However, in the remote areas, there is noise, and it grows as small as possible.
30:50In the bay, females can analyze the available food.
30:54While males can analyze the competition.
30:59At this moment, Leah's male, Georgie, is walking in the center of the park with a rival,
31:05a male of the same size, named Bailiff.
31:14This is the seal that Mireya has not yet seen in the wild.
31:18Two times she has seen that she has killed another one.
31:22They fight with heavy weapons, and cut off their muscles like two strong sportsmen.
31:27The fights are fierce.
31:29But if one of them is killed, the female may be forced to leave the male.
31:35It is interesting that, as a female gorilla,
31:38the males tend to attack a little more than the female has to,
31:42because they create a bigger impact from her.
31:45But the females without claws are less dangerous.
31:49One of Bailiff's females, named Georgie.
31:55She is more willing to leave, because she does not have the muscles of the male.
32:00She is a free spirit, and she can always move on to another group.
32:06Look at Bailiff.
32:10Wow, he really came down on his female.
32:14He does it to remind her that she is part of his group,
32:17to be with her in the group and to deter the seals as much as possible.
32:20Yes, without doubt.
32:22It is not known if such an aggression affects the female in the group, or if she leaves.
32:28This is a very interesting question.
32:31It is a question of the female.
32:33Is this something that they want?
32:35A very strong muscle that they want to demonstrate in the group?
32:38Or is it something that they think that,
32:40if she leaves as a male, she has to go to another group?
32:46I think for the female it would be normal to have an aggressive muscle,
32:50because she will attack the seals.
32:53But you said that, because she is a muscle.
32:56There is also a lot to be said about the rules of the game.
32:59Bailiff's female is the main enemy of the seals,
33:02because she needs a strong body to survive in the group.
33:11The mysteries of the Perndimore seal gorillas
33:13do not only concern themselves for a day, but for several months.
33:18Gorillas live up to 20 years, or even longer.
33:22The project of the Imbeli Bayit Society for the Protection of the Fauna
33:25is in its seventeenth year.
33:28The gorillas were young when the project began,
33:31but now they have reached the age of reproduction.
33:34A male with the name Saha,
33:36was initially seen as a young boy.
33:39Now he is 19 years old.
33:44We know that Saha started studying in 1995.
33:48He was isolated for two or three years.
33:52So he is in that phase when he will start looking for females very soon.
33:59I think he needs some time to fully develop.
34:02He is exhausted, but he is looking for something else.
34:05We will see if he will find females,
34:07but some don't even get females at all.
34:13Saha is seen as a subject for further study,
34:16to find out what makes a gorilla more attractive than another.
34:21Belief, when he grows up in the bay.
34:27In any case, Saha needs to be eclipsed.
34:32I think he is a bit disappointed,
34:34because he is not fully grown yet.
34:36Dr. Brouweri believes that the main factor
34:39to find a female is the crest.
34:42The curved, thin and muscular crown of Belief
34:45is like a sign for females,
34:47although Saha's crest cannot compete.
35:02Is he getting worried that his group is being separated?
35:05Yes, he is a big curious.
35:08Belief is one of the oldest.
35:14He is in the middle of the largest group.
35:16He is attracted by the center stage.
35:20But his problems do not stop here.
35:25There are a total of nine males.
35:27So he is a separate group?
35:29Yes.
35:31A prepotent adolescent group,
35:33coming from the south.
35:39Is she conscious of this composite?
35:41Yes.
35:42They are pretty tough guys now, are they?
35:45Yeah.
35:48Saha will not be afraid.
35:56There is no female here,
35:58only male to show his strength.
36:02It's not fair.
36:03They are a lot.
36:04But he is bigger.
36:05He is bigger.
36:12The largest male of the group is Rudy.
36:15He is a curious male,
36:17but he is not in a good mood
36:19to get a silver medal.
36:23Rudy and his gang
36:25are chasing and chasing Saha.
36:30The chase ends in vain.
36:33But Rudy has a lot of gorillas to protect
36:35and this puts him at risk.
36:41Wow.
36:42Wow.
36:43Wow.
36:44Wow.
36:45God.
36:46God.
36:47God.
36:48God.
36:49God.
36:50God.
37:12Saha is not afraid anymore.
37:14This could be the beginning of a new chapter in Izod's life.
37:24Shil's tension is relieved.
37:35You know, it's nice to be able to talk to Shil.
37:38It's nice to be able to talk to him.
37:42Yeah, it's nice to be able to talk to him.
37:48Gorillas know that they are in Shil.
37:51They breathe air and kill insects.
37:54They can spend eight hours in Shil.
37:57There have been cases where they have been in Shil for eight hours.
38:00But they are many.
38:03The rocks in the tropical jungle of the Congo
38:06have been reduced in size and more with the change of weather.
38:10The Nauklea forest, where the gorillas live,
38:13is said to be barren.
38:15But it's starting to give Shil a chance to relax.
38:30When females, like these two,
38:32mate with each other,
38:34this usually happens within the same group.
38:36And Shkaku is Shil's son.
38:38Scientists are not sure
38:40if the females have a hierarchy within the group.
38:45Now, in your experience,
38:47is one of the females more dominant than the other?
38:51I think from the work we've been doing,
38:53we've been able to get a very clear conclusion.
38:57It seems like that's one of the other mysteries
39:00that these gorillas are running into,
39:02is we don't know if there's a clear hierarchy in the females.
39:05Yeah.
39:08We know that there is competition within different groups.
39:11What we don't know is how many gorillas
39:14are in the same group.
39:17Some female gorillas can give birth to six.
39:39Mireia, you say in Mondica,
39:41hoping to understand in a deeper level,
39:44the role of the female gorillas of the Perndimore family,
39:47in their groups.
39:51That relates to the family
39:53led by the patriarch, Kingo.
39:55In the world of Kingo,
39:57there has been a new development.
40:00One of his females is Nafsh,
40:02and ready to mate.
40:04When the silverback gorilla is ready to mate,
40:07it makes a growling sound
40:09and swallows all of its young.
40:12And it lets the female know
40:14that it's ready and willing.
40:18But which female is it?
40:25These matings have been carried out
40:27by a group of female gorillas
40:29from the Perndimore family.
40:32These matings have been carried out by Emily, not Kingo.
40:38In this case, it's a female named Emily.
40:43And she gives birth one at a time.
40:46This kind of mating is extremely rare.
40:50It has never happened before in Mondica,
40:52until Emily gave birth.
40:56Mating is not something that happens very often,
40:59and the opportunity to do it in nature
41:01is unbelievable.
41:04Although Emily is Nafsh,
41:06other females are also asking to mate.
41:10At first, it's a female named Mama.
41:13Then, it's a male named Mekome,
41:15who is ready to mate.
41:21It's better to be an unbelievable female
41:23than to be Nafsh at the same time.
41:26Why are females asking to mate
41:28if they're not Nafsh?
41:31It could be a way to compete with other females.
41:35It could be a way for females to learn
41:37to work with the ones that they have with Kingo.
41:42It could be a way to learn.
41:46No one in the females dominates over the others,
41:49but it seems that in their ways
41:51they compete for Kingo's sympathy.
41:55The simplicity of the choice
41:57is really a topic for primatology.
41:59But the females don't know how to act verbally.
42:02They need to make a choice,
42:04such as not to mate with the male
42:06and to leave the group.
42:08And all of their choices
42:10influence the choice of the male to leave,
42:13and that, to be exact, is war.
42:18As for Kingo, he has the authority
42:20to give the group the right
42:22to do other things.
42:25Pankovia, one of their favorite fruits,
42:28is a virgin.
42:30But just because she's a virgin
42:32doesn't mean that she has to mate with others.
42:38No one after her
42:40gives Kingo the right
42:42to guarantee the marriage.
42:56This is yet another example
42:58of the social hierarchy.
43:10If someone becomes a leader when he grows up,
43:13then he will be the one
43:15to take the responsibility.
43:21But this privilege
43:23is 14 years old.
43:54The families of the fauna
43:56will continue to tell the story
43:58of Kingo's family
44:00and their ancestors in Belibai.
44:04The information these gorillas
44:06have provided so far
44:08is innovative.
44:10They live in a complex family
44:12where the females balance
44:14the authority of the male
44:16with the protection of the female.
44:18And in their area,
44:20in the list of primates,
44:22there are a lot of gorillas
44:24together with humans
44:26and other larger monkeys.
44:32These little gorillas
44:34have revealed their secrets
44:36in a way that 100,000 others
44:38can reveal their secrets.
44:40In isolation, there is a barrier.
44:42This barrier is always broken
44:44by the dust that has been
44:46spread for a long time
44:48and by people who have been
44:50serving this place
44:52for a very short time.
44:57Do you realize how many animals
44:59are in the wild
45:01in the African jungle
45:03where all the gorillas go?
45:05Here, this farm has spread
45:07because there are animals
45:09in the jungle,
45:11and this Eden
45:13is their safe haven.
45:21This is a story about
45:23a group of gorillas
45:25who live in the jungle
45:27for a very short time.
45:29They live in the jungle
45:31for a very short time.
45:33They live in the jungle
45:35for a very short time.
45:37They live in the jungle
45:39for a very short time.
45:41They live in the jungle
45:43for a very short time.
45:45They live in the jungle
45:47for a very short time.