What are the mountain gorilla’s predators and threats?

As the human population grows; the necessity of deforestation and the amount of poachers increases, destroying the population of the mountain gorillas. Mountain gorillas are usually killed for parts of their bodies to be collected by collectors, or trapped in snares intended that were intended for other animals. Infants are sold to researchers, people who want them as pets, and the zoos resulting in a low population since the mountain gorillas already have a slow reproductive rate. The increasing rate of human population throughout the mountain gorilla’s habitat is pushing them to isolated forest islands, and that is not the only threat they have, mountain gorillas also have to worry about leopards and crocodiles which hunt them as a food source.