# Young gorillas figure out how to dismantle snares set by poachers **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 20, 2012, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-gorillas-figure-out-how-to-dismantle-snares-set-by-poachers/628811 "2012-07-20T03:51:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2012, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-gorillas-figure-out-how-to-dismantle-snares-set-by-poachers/628811/1 "2012-07-20T03:51:34Z")
[Amazing](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2176012/Smarter-average-ape-Astonishing-pictures-young-gorillas-worked-dismantle-poachers-trap-killed-friends.html). > [@](#): > > Just days after a poacher’s snare had killed one of their own, two young mountain gorillas have been spotted working together to take apart poachers traps. It won’t be long before the Lady Liberty is up to her armpits in sand. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2012, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-gorillas-figure-out-how-to-dismantle-snares-set-by-poachers/628811/2 "2012-07-20T03:54:43Z")
Somewhere Jane Goodall is pumping her fist. “YES!” ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2012, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-gorillas-figure-out-how-to-dismantle-snares-set-by-poachers/628811/3 "2012-07-20T04:31:44Z")
> [@a35362](#): > > Somewhere Jane Goodall is pumping her fist. “YES!” Or possibly Dian Fossey. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2012, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-gorillas-figure-out-how-to-dismantle-snares-set-by-poachers/628811/4 "2012-07-20T04:41:33Z")
Well, she’s dead, so I didn’t pick her. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2012, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-gorillas-figure-out-how-to-dismantle-snares-set-by-poachers/628811/5 "2012-07-20T04:44:58Z")
> [@a35362](#): > > Somewhere Jane Goodall is pumping her fist. “YES!” Gary Larson too. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2012, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-gorillas-figure-out-how-to-dismantle-snares-set-by-poachers/628811/6 "2012-07-20T05:28:15Z")
> [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](#): > > It won’t be long before the Lady Liberty is up to her armpits in sand. Only after a long campaign of gorilla warfare. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2012, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-gorillas-figure-out-how-to-dismantle-snares-set-by-poachers/628811/7 "2012-07-20T11:50:35Z")
“Get your stinkin’ snares offa me, you damn dirty poachers!” 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2012, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-gorillas-figure-out-how-to-dismantle-snares-set-by-poachers/628811/8 "2012-07-20T15:58:23Z")
If I’m reading the article correctly, it looks like the two gorillas hurried to dismantle the trap _to protect a human_ who was approaching the snare – after a third gorilla had warned the human about the trap: > [@](#): > > John Ndayambaje, our field data coordinator, reported that he saw one snare very close to the group; since the gorillas were moving in that direction, he decided to deactivate it. > > Silverback Vuba pig-grunted at him (a vocalization of warning) and at the same time juveniles Dukore and Rwema together with blackback Tetero ran toward the snare and together pulled the branch used to hold the rope. ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2012, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-gorillas-figure-out-how-to-dismantle-snares-set-by-poachers/628811/9 "2012-07-20T17:46:50Z")
> [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](#): > > It won’t be long before the Lady Liberty is up to her armpits in sand. Don’t we need maniacs (god damn them to hell) to blew it up first? ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2012, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-gorillas-figure-out-how-to-dismantle-snares-set-by-poachers/628811/10 "2012-07-20T20:13:50Z")
Go go gorillas!