Zoo celebrates world’s oldest gorilla’s birthday

April 18, 2022 11:09 GMT+7

The gorilla is a creature known for its strength, intelligence, and longevity. Fatou is the name of a 65-year-old gorilla living in Berlin zoo, Germany and this is the oldest gorilla in the world.

Zoo celebrates world’s oldest gorilla’s birthday

Recently, the Berlin Zoo held a 65th birthday party for the gorilla Fatou. Caregivers at the zoo made the monkey a birthday cake out of rice, his favorite fruit.

Sharing pictures on Instagram, the zoo representative said: “Our dear gorilla turns 65 years old today. This is the oldest gorilla in the world. This year, the monkey party cannot be without cake. traditional birthday. A birthday meal is always something very special for Fatou.”

Photos shared on social media show the giant primate enjoying a cake decorated with fruit and made into the number 65.

The gorilla Fatou arrived in Berlin, Germany in 1959 under a pitiful and unusual situation.

A sailor used a small gorilla to pay cash to the owner of a pub in Marseilles, France. The new owner took it around Europe before the zoo representative in Germany bought it. At that time the gorilla was only about 2 years old. Fatou is one of the only animals at the Berlin Zoo born in the wild.

In 2019, the Guinness World Records named Fatou as “the longest living gorilla in captivity”. The previous record belonged to a gorilla named Trudy born in 1956. Trudy lived to 63 years old at Little Rock Zoo, it is also a gorilla born in the wild, then brought into the zoo. .

According to Guinness, gorillas in captivity have the longest life expectancy of about 150 years.

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