#Youngatheart' is an expression that doesn't just apply to human adults who play like kids. This video begins with two mischievous young male mountain #gorillas at play, wrestling and chasing; two infants also play, initially just watched by their mothers at the back of the glade, but then their #GorillaMums join in the fun, wrestling and tickling each other with play faces (open-mouthed laughing expression accompanied by play chuckles). As the game unfolds, I tried to follow the best bits, pulling out to include several players and zooming in to show the action in close-up, but notice there is no editing - the video shows the behaviour exactly how it happened.
To me, this is the most compelling kind of wildlife film - not a compilation of edited clips from different occasions stitched together to make a sequence, but a truthful record of behaviour as it transpired. On this day, the #SusaGroup of #mountaingorillas had just finished a long siesta and most of the group had moved off to feed for the afternoon. Those left behind evidently wanted to play more than they wanted to feed, and certainly made the day of the human visitors watching. The video was shot in Volcanoes National Park​, #Rwanda, and it forms the 81st daily #BrightenYourDay video to connect people to #nature during the #Covid19 #pandemic #lockdown.