There were several mountain gorillas infants in Group Thirteen and I took this opportunity to get closer with some detail pictures. This guy was slipping all over the place and occasionally losing his grip. I took this one just before he fell with a thud to the earth.

Group Thirteen is so named because it once held thirteen individuals, but now holds about-twenty six. It’s one of seven habituated groups suitable for mountain gorilla trekking in Rwanda. There are also nine other research groups as well as several uninhabituated ones.

Nobody ever regrets spending the $500 to spend just one hour with mountain gorillas in either Uganda or Rwanda. And that’s excluding the accommodation, flights to get there, and the up to eight hours trekking there and back.

Taken using a Nikon D300 with a 70-100 f2.8 lens and 1.4 converter at f/4.8, 1/180 and ISO 250.