2 gorillas pose for selfie with anti-poaching rangers

The latest picture garnered over 12 thousand likes and 14 thousand shares on Facebook.

CONGO (Web Desk) – Two gorillas posed extraordinarily for selfies with anti-poaching rangers at the Virunga National Park in Congo.

Virunga dedicated 600 anti-poaching rangers in the Democratic Republic of Congo where two of them clicked heart-warming selfies with gorillas weighing up to 400lbs.

Virunga, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, has 600 dedicated rangers and two of them snapped the heart-warming series of selfies with the gorillas who can weight up to 400lbs.

According to an online website, one shows the gorillas standing upright behind the men, while another titled ‘family time’ shows one of the rangers, Patrick Sadiki with the primates, Ndakasi and Matabishi cuddling up to him.

The latest picture, posted on Thursday, garnered over 12 thousand likes and 14 thousand shares on Facebook.

According to the park’s website, the park has been ‘deeply’ impacted by war and armed conflict over the last two decades and so the fearless work of the rangers is crucial. .

All of the rangers go through an extensive six-month training regime to become guardians of the park.

They are all from local Congolese towns and villages and need support to continue their vital work.

The rangers are the guardians of the park that was primarily gazetted to protect the endangered Mountain Gorillas that call it home.

The park was closed amid several security concerns in June last year and was only reopened in February.

Around 400 gorillas, in around 10 groups led by males flow freely between the Rwandan protected area and Uganda’s Mgahinga Gorilla National Park and Virunga National Park.

In 2013, the park authorities estimated that six mountain gorilla families - 100 individuals - were contained in Virunga and available to track.

Human-like animals possess human abilities such as posing stylishly for the camera.