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Where do gorillas sleep?

In nests.

These large, muscular primates every evening (and even after a hearty dinner) build a new nest for themselves - on the ground or on the lower branches of trees.

With the exception of very young individuals, the alignment of gorillas is this: one monkey - one nest.

Of course, these nests can hardly be called works of art - just a simple lair of intertwined branches with foliage as a mattress, the construction of which takes no more than ten minutes. Moreover, females with cubs prefer to sleep on trees, and males, or "dominants", settle down on the ground.

According to some observations, gorillas living in the lowlands are very clean and homely; mountain gorillas are indifferent to hygiene, regularly pollute their nests and do not disdain to sleep on piles of their own shit. Gorillas never learned to swim. And they have forty-eight chromosomes - two more than humans.

Every year the Bushmen eat more gorillas than are kept in all the zoos in the world.

Author: John Lloyd, John Mitchinson

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This layer can be destroyed, i.e., the ozone content in it can decrease and its protective effect can be weakened. Probably, this is how the "ozone hole" is formed. It is believed that this is due to the ingress of freons into the atmosphere - fluorine- and chlorine-containing gases, widely used for all kinds of sprays and in refrigeration. At first, this phenomenon was observed only in the region of the South Pole, but then a decrease in the ozone content was also detected over the Arctic.

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