Rwanda gorilla families and their silver back heads

As one plans another exquisite journeys to Rwanda also known as the land of thousand hills, He/she has to know that the major tourism attractions are the gorillas. Rwanda is said to be home of almost half of gorilla population in the world.

 These huge primate presence in Rwanda is traced ways back to so many years ago. Other primates living in the Rwanda include the chimpanzees and the golden monkeys living both present volcanoes Rwanda national park.  The Rwanda gorillas are classified into 10 groups or families they are located in the different parks of the forest and they are meant to be tracked by maximum of 8 people.

Below are the list of gorilla families that reside in volcanoes Rwanda national park.

The Susa family: This group was named after Susa River that goes through the confines of these group’s residence, they are 23 in number and consisting of 3 silverbacks, They normally stick to the mountain ranges hence making then difficult to track because navigating across mountain ranges is quit tedious.

The karisimbi family: they are also referred to as the Susa B family their name suggestion is attributed the fact that they broke out for the Susa family it consists of 15 members. It lives in on the ranges of mountain karisimbi.

Sabinyo family: this group is named after the Sabinyo Mountain consists of 8 members in the group. They are the easiest members to track because they are closer. Their alpha is called Gironde, he’s the most powerful and highly built of all alphas.

The Amahoro family:  this family consists of 17 members and they are the most peaceful of all gorilla families in Rwanda as their name suggests.

Umubano group: The family name means neighborliness, it has 11 members. They broke up from the Amahoro family after Charles their head maturing into an alpha male and hence formed their own family.

13 group as also called the Agasha:  this family originally consisted of 13 members but later expanded to 25.Agashya is the alpha, he become one after overthrowing nyakarima  in a horrific fight that left some injured. He later moved to volcanoes and established himself there.

Kwitonda family:  This hilarious groups consists of 18 members with the alpha male being called kwitonda and the also name means humble, it has two silver backs and one black back male. This particular group is difficult to track because they are always roaming form one place to another hence making it difficult to get them in specified place.

Hirwa group: Hirwa in its originally means the lucky one.

Bwenge family:  this family consists of 11 members and is headed by Bwenge the sliver back, they are normally found in the slopes of Karisoke Mountain.

Ugenda family: This pleasant family lives at the slopes of mountain Karisimbi.it consists of 11 members with two silverbacks. The family name means always on the move correlating with their behaviors of moving from on place to another. They are also difficult to track because of their mobility.