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Western lowland gorilla "Imbi" with her two offspring.

In pretty much every Zoo I visited, even modern and big exhibits, great apes have no acces to trees, they are either weired, to stop the apes to climb on them, or are not even present. My question is why. (With few exeptions like the Gorilas exhibit in Apenheul) Zoos don't give them acces...

Hi, I am a local Belfast girl. A few politicians are calling for Belfast Zoo to close, so I have began a petition demanding huge investment for it. Some of the enclosures need updated and enlarged, the floral hall hall needs renovated and the old part needs a complete overhaul. The zoo staff...

Photo taken August 7, 2019

In 1955 my father-in-law Nick Arundel brought a pair of gorillas from Africa on a commercial flight to America and donated them to the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. It was the beginning of dramatic changes for the gorillas and for the zoo that would evolve from an antiquated animal park to an...

In the gorilla pavillion

I would like to invite all those folks in the Washington, D.C. area to a book talk, Sunday, Aug. 26, 2018 at 4 p.m. at Nanny O'Brien's Irish Pub. I am Kara Arundel, author of Raising America's Zoo: How Two Wild Gorillas Helped Transform the National Zoo. This story shares the heartbreak and...

I was looking forwards to Oumbi's Birthday. In my calendar I had his Birthday on the 28th of June. Looking at it again when I got to the zoo, the sign said 30th of June. OK, I thought I must of put the wrong date into my calendar, but just something didn't sit right with me. Back at home I tried...

Taken June 14 2018

North American Western Lowland Gorilla Population As we have threads with the populations of African Elephant and Asian Elephant populations in North America, it only seems right to have a thread for the Western Lowland Gorilla as well. This topic will be constantly updated, keeping up with the...

Left hand side enclosure

Kept singly in right hand enclosure