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A friend of mine told me that her favourite animals are gorillas, so I had to fold one for her :D

I made two very similar origami gorillas: I folded the right one first, according to the PDF on the WWF website (except for the front legs, where the instructions and the picture on the first page are not the same): https://www.worldwildlife.org/publications/gorilla-origami-instructions

But then I looked up the instructions on YouTube (because I like having both instructions and a video while folding something) and found a nearly identical one with a bit more shaping, so I folded another gorilla which I then gave my friend because I liked it more. Here's the video: https://youtu.be/hcJ4Clhg6O4?si=0zNyFToKasDOjyKx

The first steps in the video are a bit different and, in my eyes, slightly more logical than in the PDF, but apart from that, they're very similar. The shaping at the end gives it a completely different look and more dimension though (especially the area around the nose and the back), so regardless of whether you decide to follow the diagrams or the video, please have a look at the video for the shaping.

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