'The simplicity of life just hits you': Watch rare footage of critically endangered eastern lowland gorilla feeding her baby in the wild
PBS' "Nature" documentary "Silverback" follows a group of eastern lowland gorillas in the Democratic Republic of Congo, capturing rare footage from their day-to-day lives.
1/16/20251 min read
Rare footage captures the moment an eastern lowland gorilla breastfeeds her baby in the tropical rainforests of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
"To see this behaviour so close was remarkable and what struck me was how familiar it looks, just like humans," filmmaker Vianet Djenguet told Live Science in an email. "The infant was suckling whilst looking at us, like I have seen in so many villages across the world. The simplicity of life just hits you."
The clip was filmed for the Emmy- and Peabody-winning PBS series "Nature," with the first episode of the new season — "Silverback" — following Djenguet as he documents the lives of eastern lowland gorillas (Gorilla beringei graueri), a critically endangered subspecies of eastern gorillas (Gorilla beringei) found in the eastern part of the DRC.