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Artis - Gorilla indoor exhibit

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The indoor exhibit for lowland gorillas inside the Gorilla House in Artis Amsterdam. The gorillas share this exhibit with white-throated guenons and slender-tailed meerkats. Quite a nice exhibit actually: decent-sized, light, some climbing structures, soft wood-ship substrate (good for foraging) and some live plants.
My only suggestion for an easy improvement would be to span a net over the exhibit making it possible to have more extensive climbing frames (which especially the guenons would benefit from).
July 2008
The indoor exhibit for lowland gorillas inside the Gorilla House in Artis Amsterdam. The gorillas share this exhibit with white-throated guenons and slender-tailed meerkats. Quite a nice exhibit actually: decent-sized, light, some climbing structures, soft wood-ship substrate (good for foraging) and some live plants.
My only suggestion for an easy improvement would be to span a net over the exhibit making it possible to have more extensive climbing frames (which especially the guenons would benefit from).
July 2008
 
i like it but they could do with abit more straw but overall it a lovely enclosure indoor and outdoor but can i ask one question is their a silverback in this enclosure.
 
You can see him sleeping on the platform in the centre of the frame :)
 
The gorilla's have bred several times and i believe the meerkats also have bred once, but i'm not sure. For the guenons i don't know.
 
All three female Gorillas have had (male) offspring since this male 'Akili' arrived in 2005. These young (born 2007/8) may have been born before it became a mixed exhibit though?

I'm surprised they leave the palm-type bushes alone and don't rip them up.
 

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