this was my first encounter with lowland gorillas in the wild. i'd seen mountain gorillas in rwanda and uganda, but they tend to stay on the ground. i couldn't believe these huge primates were swinging through the trees like chimpanzees. lee: they're 60 feet up, maybe. jack: it looks like they live a lot more in the trees than mountain gorillas. lee: yeah, climbing the trees all the time to get food. jack: food, that's right. lowland gorillas will eat roots, shoots, and tree bark, but up to 2/3 of their diet is fruit. males may eat up to 40 pounds a day, so they need to cover a lot of territory. lee: up, up, up, up. jack: where? where? lee: yeah, there we go, yeah. jack: sure enough, the big silverback was watching us from way up in a tree. wow. boy, is that a big one. man alive. this family group had 22 gorillas. a very large troop. this is something else. lee: i tell you, once you come, you almost always come back. jack: oh, yeah. next up, the time we traveled to the african savannah to find out why lions have manes. but while we were there, we