Silverback
Works
[sil-ve-bak]
~noun
[wurks]
~noun
A place or establishment for creating, manufacturing, originating products and services.
An older, wiser gorilla, usually the leader of a group, whose hairs are silver. The silverback thinks it has both individual and collective responsibility for both its group and the environment and spends its entire life at grass roots level.
Gorillas are herbivores, they eat leaves and shoots, so they are further classified as foliovores. They are closely related to humans and are thought to be highly intelligent. A few in captivity such as Koko have learned to make hand signals.
They are now known to use tools, for example to use a rock to smash open palm nuts and to use a stick to gauge the depth of a river.
Some gorilla links on the web: Dian Fossey's conservation work continues with the Gorilla Fund African conservationsists lead the mission to save the gorillas with the international charity, Gorilla Organisation To find out more about Koko the gorilla that makes hand signals visit the Gorilla Foundation And finally, the famous drumming gorilla on Youtube
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