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Jungle Snuggles: Learning New Skills

In Jungle Snuggles: Learning New Skills, narrator Gordon Buchanan explains how a three-year-old mountain gorilla has no one to show her how to build a nest after losing her mother. During the cold night, other baby gorillas snuggle their mothers in nests. Instead, the three-year-old finds comfort in the snuggles of her father on the ground to stay warm. This video is excerpted from BBC's Animal Babies, a heartwarming show that follows the first breaths, first steps, and first feeds of some adorable baby animals, revealing the challenges they face to survive in some of the toughest but most beautiful places on the planet.
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Location:
Rwanda
Grades:
K-23-5
Program:
Animal Babies
Time:
3:01
Subject:
Science
Topic:
Life Science

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Q: How do mountain gorillas normally survive cold night temperatures?
A: They build nests in trees above the cold ground.

Q: Why is it such a problem for the gorilla to have lost her mom?
A: There’s no one to teach her how to build a nest because her father is too heavy. She has no one to snuggle with in a nest to keep warm at night.

Q: Why do you think the three-year-old doesn't go into another nest and snuggle the mother?
A: They might be too heavy all together. The other mother might not accept her.

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