Young Gorillas Found Disabling Snare

That's cool that the gorillas are learning to disable the traps.....Sad that poachers are trapping them....Maybe with time the gorillas will learn to kill the poachers...These are very endangered animals not to mention they are just wonderful as are all animals...

this is beautiful and heartbreaking at the same time.....i feel no sympathy for hunters who set traps, even if it is for food. it is one of the cruelest ways to hunt animals as they are left to suffer in agony terrified and/or wounded until the scumbag hunter returns. thinking about these gorillas disabling these traps fills me both joy at their ingenuity and empathy, and sorrow that they are forced to do this to protect themselves.

I think a lot of people here are missing the fact that these traps are not set up for gorillas. They're set up for smaller animals. It just so happens that gorillas can get caught in the trap. These people aren't evil. They just need to learn a better way of hunting and surviving that doesn't hurt the gorillas.

no, it's better to capture the poachers and then feed them alive to the animals.

People need to eat. I get it. But if the African peoples need food, send them food. Send them money. These gorillas are majestic beyond man's cruelty and must be protected.

Poachers need to know that there's not that many gorillas left and once they are all gone there won't be any more of them. Gorillas need to be saved, there are too many animals that are already extinct and nothing can bring them back. Poachers should be helping to protect those animals and not harm them or kill them. There is not enough money in the world, worth the life of any animal that is near extinction. There is other ways for poachers to make money and killing animals is not one of them. People need to stop paying those poachers for killing animals. Gorillas have the right to live, leave them alone.

Better it was disabled than harm a gorilla..wonder if this gorilla pased the word on how to disable.animals r not dumb

Animals are smarter than people give them credit for......

Poachers ought to be shot! They are the scum of the earth and don't deserve to live!

As awesome as this story is, it also makes me very sad because people are so quick to dismiss the suffering that animals have to endure at the hands of greedy, selfish humans. This is just further evidence that animals do think, feel, suffer, and are even able to feel empathy....a concept which is "foreign" to far too many humans.