Oumbi The Huge Silverback Gorilla Has His Gym Session

I just love watching Oumbi the male gorilla from the Twycross Zoo. He is the most active just before lunchtime, like everybody else, he's getting all excited. They are waiting for the doors to close so the keepers can scatter the food outside. Apart from a few outburst that he has to keep his family in check, he is quite happy being mostly just sitting, eating, relaxing and sleeping , which does make you wonder how he gets all those muscles. Well now you'll find out. He's doing his daily routine of Pull-ups! Just look how he manages to do them with so much ease! When he does his first pull up you’ll see mother Ozala in the background running with baby Shufai. After he had his pull-ups he’s running through the enclosure to let everybody know he’s the boss and everybody moves quickly out of his way. Asante is resting up the top and you can see Oumbi having a little dig at her. He continues with some more gym exercise, before he has another go at the others. Oumbi is normally the first one out after lunch, that is if Lope doesn’t get there first! Than it’s Ozala wit baby Shufai. Asante and Bidi are always the last ones to go out and giving all the others the chance of feeding first, until they are getting there share.


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Adorable Baby Rhino Wants To Play With Resting Mother

Akeno the greater one-horned rhino calf from Chester Zoo is just cuteness overload. He runs around, with the cute little wiggly ears. Headbutting his mum every so often. When mum decided she likes a bit of a lie down, Akeno bumps in to her leg, then walks around her and jumps on her back! While on top of her he gives her little nudges, one after another: Com'mon mum I want to play. No time to sleep now :-) . When that is not working he gets off mums back and nudges her in the butt instead and runs off. Continuing running around her. A few more nudges in his mother's face, another run around and then finally, his mum is getting up again

Gorilla Lope Steals Food Of Grandma Biddy

The cheeky little so and so Lope is stealing the food from Grandma Biddy. He not only steals the one branch of tree, no he steals two. Looking at grandmas face, you really feel sorry for her. To rub it in, Lope seems to enjoy his stolen food a bit too much. :-) So gran goes inside, to get herself some more. Hopefully she will have all those for herself.

Chimpanzee Loves Pulling Faces At Camera And Then Applauds

This is Tojo from the Twycross Zoo in England and she loves her own reflection. You can always see her with a CD running around the enclosure. Now she had the opportunity to see herself in a camera and she made the most of it by pulling funny faces at it and then she applauds herself. She still didn't let go of her piece of CD in her hand.
In 2016 a mirror self-recognition test if a non-human being has the capacity of visual self-recognition. Chimpanzees were one of the animals, that breezed through the MSR test as recognizing themselves.

Gorilla Lope And the Empty Yoghurt Tub

Lope is playing with his empty yoghurt tub, when you suddenly see a hand, Shufais hand stealing a stick from Lope. Shufai runs off with it and sits with his mum.

Gorilla Mother Ozala With Her Sons

Ozala and Lope have a little wrestle , with mum being a shield to Shufai. Ozala is trying hard not to let Lope anywhere near his brother.
The best bit has to be where Ozala grabs the wood wool and just plonks it on Lope, as if to say here take this, shut up and behave. lol. When Lope starts again mum gets hold of his neck and really has him good. She then moves on top of him and Shufai is not faced at all, he's just clinging on to mums back. Lope manages to wiggle himself free and finally sits down.

Playtime For Gorilla Lope And Baby Brother Shufai

These two gorilla brothers enjoy their playful wrestling match. Lope being quite gentle letting Shufai take the lead.

For everyone that is interested and didn't see my post on the community tab:

I’ve been meaning to do this for quite a while, but never had the time to research it all, but now I finally written it down. I hope everything is correct, if someone sees a mistake I made, please feel free to correct me!
The gorilla current family at Twycross consists of 6 members, which are Oumbi, Ozala, Biddy, Asante, Lope and Shufai
Oumbi ( 30 June 1992) Sons : Okanda 17 Apr 2011 Hand raised now at München Hellabrunn Germany)
Lope ( 3rd Jan 2013) and Shufai (24th Sep 2016) both born at Twycross Zoo in England and they are still at the Zoo. For some reason Shufai is known in the studbook as MIJADALA (Mija)!
Ozala (19 Mar 1994) , she had three sons and one daughter. Ozalas first mate was Ti . Ozala and Ti had Matadi on the 25th May 2003. Then they had their daughter Ndoki on the 3rd of May 2007, but she sadly died on the 29th Aug 2007, unknown cause.
Matadi is at the Antwerp Zoo in Belgium.
Ti died in 26 Feb 2007, the cause was a stroke. Oumbi got moved to Twycross Zoo in 2009 to mate with the females. Ozala was Oumbi chosen mate.
Asante (6th Jun 1985) is Ozalas half sister. She hasn’t got any offspring.
Biddy is Ozalas Mum as she was born in the wild during 1973, there is no record of siblings or parents. Her offspring’s are Mambie and Ozala.

Jambo The Hairless Chimpanzee Is Getting Ready To Go To Sleep

Jambo the hairless Chimpanzee is getting ready to got to sleep. Gathering all his wood wool for his nest and carrying it to the place where he wants to sleep. As he starts yawning, you can see his impressive sets of teeth. When his back is turned to the camera, just laying there you almost think he's human. While Jumbo is ready to got to sleep, meet his daughter Genet who is sitting relaxed on the climbing ribbons scratching her back with a stick.