She still lives at the Columbus zoo, where she was born. Just outside of the frame are 4 zoo employees keeping the animals close together. He also tells the story of the first gorilla twins born in the Western Hemisphere-Macombo and Mosuba-as they grow from playful infants to important members. Fifty-nine-year-old Colo is considered the oldest gorilla on record. They took Macombo and Mosuba out of the enclose to an open grassy area where I took this photograph. Photograph by Martha Robbins, Nat Geo Image Collection. 308 WINCHESTER 20' Stainless Steel 1/10 Twist Barrel 416R Rifle Gas System (0) 109.99. Probably because this exotic Amazonian food is largely unknown in the modern era. It’s not that they didn’t live up to expectations in research, but rather, no one has really done any There are zero clinical studies about it. They also tend to be a bit larger than other gorillas. Nor can much be claimed about macombo, but for a different reason. Good news as the zoo staff understood my predicament and arranged for me to enter the zoo before it opened to the public the next morning. Mountain gorillas have longer hair and shorter arms than their lowland cousins. Can’t you imagine some little kid tugging at mom’s arm, “Mommy which ones are the gorillas”? Sure wish I had a photograph of that scene. And looking into that habitat were all of the zoo visitors, watching the twins and yours truly. Bush babies are typically nocturnal creatures. Eventually, Bobo returned his friend to some nearby trees. A fun time, but the magazine was paying me to deliver a cute portrait.Īs I settled into the space I had the funny feeling that I was being watched and turned my head to look over my shoulder. When the seven-ounce bush baby stumbled into the gorilla’s area and made its way to Bobo’s outstretched hand, the other gorillas were instantly curious but Bobo held them all back, refusing to let them hold or touch the bush baby. That’s an awful lot of salad 24) Gorillas are diurnal animals. In terms of lettuce, it would be roughly 23 heads of iceberg. In terms of broccoli, that would be about 80 heads of broccoli in a day. Once they were several feet away I crouched down to get some shots of them and they’d immediately run back over to play. 23) An adult male gorilla can eat up to 40 pounds of vegetation a day, which is about 10 of its total body weight. After a while they went back to moving around in the glass enclosure. I couldn’t make a good picture with both of them clinging to me. The curious “toddlers” came right over to me tugging at the camera bag hanging from my shoulder and slapping my legs. Despite reassurance from the gorilla habitat staff that these little guys were fun and friendly, it was still a bit unnerving as I was led thru the labyrinth of corridors, thru several heavy steel locked doors and gates into their space. During one of her visits, she decided she. Zoo keepers first took me to the gorilla habitat for the photo session. She took quite the fascination with a popular Silver-back Gorilla named Macombo, who is still thriving at the Zoo. Macombo and Mosuba at the Henry Dorly Zoo.