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Did You Know Gorillas Can Sing?

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After being accepted as a member of the gorilla family, spy gorilla witnessed some of the family’s most intimate moments like eating, singing and flatulating. This is the first time that wild mountain gorillas have been caught singing on camera.

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- [Narrator] The other spies are recording something truly groundbreaking.

(gorillas vocalizing) They've caught our gorillas singing as they eat.

(gorillas vocalizing) It's a chorus of appreciation.

The first time this phenomenon has ever been recorded among wild mountain gorillas.

(gorillas vocalizing) They not only sing for their supper.

Consuming 40 pounds a day is bound to have consequences.

(gorilla farting) They live in a semi-permanent state ... of flatulence.

(gorilla farting)

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