Gorilla Lope's 6th Birthday Party

After the disappointment of Twycross not doing a public Birthday Party for Oumbi last year, I was happy that Twycross did do a Birthday Party for Lope yesterday. Unfortunately it looked like they were low on staff this time of year. Everything seemed to be very rushed and not a lot of thought has gone into the decoration. The family got lots of tree branches, scattered grains inside and outside, food pellets, cardboard tubes and gift wrapper that seemed to be covered with something as they licked this off later. I didn’t see any toys like they had last year like the rubber Kongs.

If you’ve seen last year’s video, you know Lope didn’t care too much for his Birthday party and was hiding! It wasn’t much different this year! He just came out grabbed one of the cardboard tubes and went outside straight away! Outside he was just looking for the scattered grain. Meanwhile inside at least the others enjoyed the different things in their enclosure. Especially Shufai ( just like last year) had a little dance when he saw all that wrapping paper. Biddy looked for the scattered grain, Asante had another tube. Ozala hid behind the inside tree. Back outside Lope stopped looking for grains and had a good go at one of the tubes. When he went back inside he continued to investigate the tube. Shufai found the flipped over Happy Birthday sign and flips it over again. Almost as to say look Brother is your Birthday, enjoy it a bit more! Lope just flicked at back around again to look for some more scattered food. More clips to come on Monday!