PowerPoints by FB Howell 5th grade students

1. Gorillas
Lizbeth

2. TABLE OF CONTENts
Interesting Facts
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3. Food and Water
• Plants, fruit, leaves, stalks, shoots and stems
• 45 pounds of food a day
• Drink mother’s milk
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4. Daily Behavior
• Sleep 15 hours a day
• Make a new nest every night
• Play fight or wrestle
• Swing on branches and vines
• Early morning they eat leaves, buds, and fruit
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5. Habitat
• Central Africa in low Eastern mountains in
Congo
• Moist Tropical forests
• New nest every night
• Close to food
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6. Family Structure
• Female feeds the young
• Males stay when babies are born
• Male is in charge
• Meet other gorillas
• Treat young with love
• Live in herds
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7. Interesting Facts
• Black or gray
• Intelligent as a human been
• Only have 1 baby
• Taught sign language
• 600 gorillas left
• Endangered species
• Few babies are born
• Loose homes and food
• Illegal hunting gorillas
• Can loose fingers, hands or toes
• Use nose prints to indentify individual animals
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8. Bibliography
Blackford, Harriet. Gorilla’s Story. New York:
Boxer Books, 2009.
Jacob, Liza. Gorillas. Farmington Hills: Black
birch, 2003.
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