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Mountain Gorilla Silverback

Mountain Gorilla Silverback

The Silverback of the group we visited in Bwindi. He kept his distance a bit but did pose while climbing up these trees. The speed of climbing was astonishing, ...
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The Silverback of the group we visited in Bwindi. He kept his distance a bit but did pose while climbing up these trees. The speed of climbing was astonishing, given the fact that we must have been around 400 pounds...

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NIKON D500

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Aperture f/4.5 ISO 800 Shutter 1/200 Focal Length 2000/10

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Uganda

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Feb, 2019

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