Befriending a gentle giant

A new BBC film, Gorilla Family and Me, explores the lives and behaviour of Grauer's Gorillas, the largest primates on Earth.

Dr Ian Redmond is a tropical field biologist and conservationist, renowned for his work with great apes and elephants.

Here Dr Redmond reflects on his latest visit to the Kahuzi-Biega National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, one of the last refuges of Grauer's Gorilla.

Gorilla Family and Me will be broadcast on 21 and 27 December 2015 at 21:00 on BBC Two.

Music by William Goodchild. Photofilm produced by Dualtagh Herr.

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