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Most men worry going prematurely bald. But for Kadogo, a mountain gorilla living in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, it's always been a way of life. Born in 2000, the silverback grew up with the hairless patch on his head, earning him a celebrity status of sorts among visitors to the Virunga National Park, where he resides with a family of mountain gorillas.

While the big guy doesn't seem to mind his missing locks, park rangers can't seem to explain the oddity. "We ask ourselves why he is the only one like that among all these others in the wilderness," Ranger Innocent Mburanumwe tells the U.K.'s Daily Mail. "I don't know why, but it's impressed me very much to see a gorilla with a bald patch like an old man among humans." Hey – as long as Kadogo's happy!

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