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The rare encounter caught on camera shows Mr King sitting beside a trail when a family of wild mountain gorillas joined him.

Intrigued by their fellow primate, three babies, a female and the silverback decide to sit down right behind him.

Two of the gorillas then start touching the wildelife enthusiast’s hair and sniff him in an apparent attempt to groom him.
“I just feel like one of the gang,” Mr King is heard saying.

A voice from behind the camera explains it could be his black T-shirt which is fooling the primates into thinking he is one of them.

After a few minutes the band of gorillas seem to get bored and are led off by the most dangerous and territorial of the group – the silverback.

Bwindi is home to roughly half of the world’s population of mountain gorillas which are an endangered species.

Very occasionally young gorillas approach humans but local rangers at the reserve said interaction between wild gorillas and humans is virtually unheard of.

Males gorillas can weigh around 400lbs (180kgs) with the average male eating up to 50 pounds (22kgs) of food a day.