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Gorilla indoor exhibit at Rostock

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One of the two gorillagroups at Rostock, in the Darwineum.
It is very interesting to see grass in an indoor exhibit, as I cannot think of ever seeing a natural substrate other than perhaps hay/straw in an indoor ape enclosure. Perhaps Lincoln Park Zoo and others have some kind of bark mulch, but I definitely have never seen gorillas on grass indoors.
 
It is very interesting to see grass in an indoor exhibit, as I cannot think of ever seeing a natural substrate other than perhaps hay/straw in an indoor ape enclosure. Perhaps Lincoln Park Zoo and others have some kind of bark mulch, but I definitely have never seen gorillas on grass indoors.

I think Beauval in France has(or had) a similar arrangement in their 2nd/modern ape accomodation.

I wonder if this male is 'Assumbo' who was born at Jersey and has lived alone for very many years?
 
It is very interesting to see grass in an indoor exhibit, as I cannot think of ever seeing a natural substrate other than perhaps hay/straw in an indoor ape enclosure. Perhaps Lincoln Park Zoo and others have some kind of bark mulch, but I definitely have never seen gorillas on grass indoors.

All of the indoor great ape spaces in Liepzig's "Pongoland" have soil/grass substrate--all four species.
 
I think Beauval in France has(or had) a similar arrangement in their 2nd/modern ape accomodation.

I wonder if this male is 'Assumbo' who was born at Jersey and has lived alone for very many years?

It is him!
 

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