Son Shows Huge Silverback Gorilla How To Handle Snow

The Gorilla Family from the Twycross zoo in England woke up this morning to freezing weather and some snow. Even though the family doesn't like to stay outside in the cold, they do love to eat snowballs! Oumbi the big Silverback Gorilla was the first to go outside to get himself some white stuff.  He did his tightrope walk to the other site of the platform where he gathered the fresh snow together and ended up with a huge chunk of snow on his hand. He started eating a little of his snow outside, but then decided he wanted to take it inside as he prefers to eat it inside. Oumbi started to cross the rope again, but as you can see in the video, holding the chunk of snow in one hand and crossing the rope wasn’t as easy as it looks for him as he starts wobbling and dropping some of the snow. The big ape decides it would be safer to get back to the platform. A little later Lope had the same idea as dad, but just look at little Lope go. With no fuss at all, he gathers the snow into his hand and just dismounts from the platform like a pro. Smooth as a baby’s bottom. Oumbi can’t be outdone by his son and gives it another go. This time he changed his method and just stuffs it all in his mouth to carry. This works a lot better and he successfully dismounts the platform, walks towards the inside and as you can see enjoys the snowball ‘ice cream’ inside.