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The first scientific description of gorillas dates back to an article by Savage and the naturalist Jeffries Wyman in 1847 in Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, [80] [81] where Troglodytes gorilla is described, now known as the western gorilla. Other species of gorilla were described in the next few years. [5]
Titus (24 August 1974 – 14 September 2009) was a silverback mountain gorilla of the Virunga Mountains, observed by researchers almost continuously over his entire life. He was the subject of the 2008 PBS Nature/BBC Natural World documentary film Titus: The Gorilla King.
Mumba (c. 1960 –October 2008) was a western lowland gorilla [1] [2] from Africa who was taken to Canada as an infant. Initially raised by a human family, spent the rest of his life at Granby Zoo, in Quebec, Canada.
Gust (1952–1988) was a Congolese gorilla that became an icon of the Antwerp Zoo; Guy the Gorilla (1946–1978) was a famous gorilla in London Zoo. Harambe (1999–2016) was a gorilla shot dead by the Cincinnati Zoo after a child fell into his enclosure. [9] This would eventually lead to the deceased ape becoming a popular Internet meme.
Colo (December 22, 1956 – January 17, 2017) was a western gorilla widely known as the first gorilla to be born in captivity anywhere in the world and the oldest known gorilla in the world in 2017.
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.
"The Largest Gorilla Ever Exhibited!" "The World's Most Terrifying Living Creature!" "The Largest and Fiercest Gorilla Ever Brought Before the Eyes of Civilised Man!" "The Only Full-Grown Gorilla Ever Seen On This Continent!" Regardless of the truth of these slogans, Gargantua attracted millions and single-handedly saved the circus. [6]
Dian Fossey (/ d aɪ ˈ æ n / dy-AN; January 16, 1932 – c. December 26, 1985) was an American primatologist and conservationist known for undertaking an extensive study of mountain gorilla groups from 1966 until her murder in 1985. [1]