does anyone know his name? he was in the bachelor group in Port Lympne (with Ambam and Mataki) in 2010. I think they have been moved to the Netherlands recently.
This chap takes hundreds of photos of Gorillas, mostly at Artis but elsewhere around Europe too. He took some brilliant ones at Basel in August, since the Gorillas came back into the Zoo.
Longleat are building new quarters at the far end of the Lake for a bachelor group of males. Not Nico's island but that area. I must stress I don't know that they will be coming from Port Lympne but it seems by far the most likely source for a Safari Park to get Gorillas. Nowadays Howletts/PL seem to move male groups to other collections much more than previously(they need the space for yet more males).
He Died of A Parasite Infection and the vet anaesthetised him but he died during the procedure and they tried to resuscitate him but he didn't come around he was one of the most handsome silverbacks in the aspinall collection its ashame he never got the opportunity to breed
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I still think this photo might be 'Boumi' (but not certain).
It sounds like yet another Gorilla which has died under anaethsetic- it is still quite common, though if he was ill already that could well have contributed too.
I hope none of the others suffer from this same infection. Presumably what was the Big Five are currently four- although Boumi's fullbrother 'Timbou' (and very similar to him in appearance) lives in the adjacent section seperately. I wonder if they may try to reintroduce him to the others at some stage? (he fought badly with 'Ambam' so was seperated several years ago.)
In the other Pavilion currently live the four younger 'K' males, all sons of 'kifu' and removed from his group and transferred to PL in July 2010. Also living seperately (in the old Chimpanzee 'tower' cage?) is the older male Ujiji (Bitam x Juju), another half-brother of Boumi & Timbou.
My guess is its possible they may try and add Ujiji to the 4 younger males to form another single group. I believe these(either as 4 or 5) are the ones destined for Longleat next year.
Do you know which year Timbou was separated from the rest of the group and Head gorilla heeper at howletts said they may have found a female to pair up with Ujiji.
I dont know if this will happen though but hopefully they will all get an opportunity to lead a group and breed
Do you know which year Timbou was separated from the rest of the group and Head gorilla heeper at howletts said they may have found a female to pair up with Ujiji.
I dont know if this will happen though but hopefully they will all get an opportunity to lead a group and breed
