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SILVERBACK KWITONDA
AND YOUNG GORILLA
This large silverback is named
Kwitonda, which means "humble one." He is known as a
paternal and friendly father.
It is easy to see from photographs like this that mountain
gorillas share 99 percent of
their DNA with human beings.
The Kwitonda group migrated
from the Congo into Rwanda.
