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The Columbus zoo’s trailblazing gorilla, the first in the world to be born in captivity, became a matriarch and presided over a family of 34 gorillas.
The Ohio zoo believed Sully the gorilla, who arrived at the facility in 2019, was a male until they found the primate cradling a baby gorilla on July 20 Columbus zoo/Facebook It's a girl!
Well, the last one might be a touch more meaningful to one family in Columbus, Ohio, because they had the coolest interaction with an adult gorilla at the zoo one day. Mom Hannah recorded the ...
“I get that people want that sort of connection,” said Beth Armstrong, a conservationist who helped shape a pioneering gorilla program at the Columbus Zoo beginning in the 1980s. “But the ...
Jack Hannah, director emeritus of the Columbus Zoo, explained, “I have seen a silverback gorilla take a green coconut and crush it — beyond the strength of anything you know. So it’s a ...
Footage from National Popcorn Day at the zoo shows the gorillas watching the bursts of popcorn rain down on their heads before scooping up handfuls. Columbus Zoo Welcomes First Baby Koala Born in ...