This hungry primate stole his family's entire supply of carrots before running away from the rest of his family and hiding in a corner to gorge himself on the orange vegetable. The content gorilla was captured at work chomping on the vegetables by 37-year-old amateur photographer Olga Gladysheva, who was visiting the zoo. Although gorillas have been kept at Moscow Zoo for a long time, the first gorilla baby in the zoo's history – and in the whole of Russia – was born in 2009. Meanwhile, as the gorilla gang fight over their carrot supply, poachers are giving their wild African counterparts a tough time. According to officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the black market for baby gorillas is growing. Alleged poachers, trying to sell one for $40,000, have been arrested in the fourth incident this year. This year marks ‘the highest number of baby gorillas confiscated from poachers in a single year on record,' the Congolese Wildlife Authority said in a statement. Emmanuel de Merode, warden of Congo's Virunga National Park, added: ‘We are very concerned about a growing market for baby gorillas that is feeding a dangerous trafficking activity in rebel controlled areas. ‘We are powerless to control the international trade in baby gorillas, but our rangers are doing everything they can to stamp it out on the ground.' Virunga National Park is home to mountain gorillas, lowland gorillas and chimpanzees among various other animals.
