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At 68 years, 25 days, Fatou is the oldest gorilla ever; oldest female gorilla ever; oldest living gorilla and oldest living female gorilla. The oldest male gorilla ever was Ozoum, who reached to the final age of 61 years, 24 days. [37]
Gorillas are social animals and suffer when isolated from their species. And, as gorillas are endangered, the zoo expected to breed Koko. [10] But Patterson felt that she had become Koko's "mother" [11] and convinced the zoo to let her move the gorilla to Stanford. Once at Stanford, Patterson worked to wrest custody of Koko from San Francisco Zoo.
Colo became the oldest living gorilla in captivity following the death of 55-year-old Jenny in September 2008. [13] Colo celebrated her 60th birthday on December 22, 2016. [ 6 ] The Columbus Zoo announced that Colo died in her sleep on January 17, 2017.
Zookeepers noted that she was a very protective mother, even refusing to let them touch baby Leslie, [5] the second born to Kokomo and Winston, a male Western lowland gorilla. The baby was born on October 18, 2016 [6] and weighed 3.5-4.5 pounds. The baby will be [needs update] part of the troop of eight gorillas at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park ...
Binti Jua (born March 17, 1988) is a female western lowland gorilla resident at the Brookfield Zoo, in Brookfield, Illinois, outside Chicago, United States.She received media attention after a situation in 1996 in which she tended to a three-year-old boy who had been injured by falling into her enclosure.
Fatou (born January 1, 1957) is a gorilla residing at Berlin Zoo, Germany. She was born in West Africa, and was brought from West Africa to France by a sailor in 1959. She was then acquired by the Berlin Zoo. On October 30, 1974, she gave birth to the first gorilla to be raised in Berlin, Dufte. [1]
Pattycake, also known as Patty Cake (September 3, 1972 – March 31, 2013) was a female western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) born to Lulu and Kongo at the Central Park Zoo in New York City. She was the first baby gorilla successfully born in captivity in New York.
In 2021, Ndakasi started losing weight and hair and lost her appetite. On 26 September 2021, she died at the Senkwekwe Mountain Gorilla Center, in the arms of ranger Andre Bauma, who had been among her rescuers in 2007. At the time of her death, Ndakasi was one of only four non-wild mountain gorillas in the wild.