Introducing Baby Gorilla From The Artis Zoo In Amsterdam

This is the cute baby gorilla from the Artis Zoo and his name is Damsi. He was born on the 18th of October 2018. His mum Dafina picks the little one up and swings it over the wall. More from Damsi next Thursday!

Short Clip Of Gorilla Lope and A Fly

Just a short clip today, but hopefully still enjoyable. :-) Gorilla Lope from the Twycross Zoo encounters a fly on his hand. He's looking at it and tries to eat it, but he's just too slow. It's been quite difficult lately to get longer videos as they've been inside and hiding alot, but I'll promise when I get the chance to make them longer then I will!

Gorilla Lope And Shufai On The Food Pole

Lope knows what to do when he sees the new feeding tube. He pushes the sites appart to get to the honey and food bits inside. He is just not very careful with it and jumps when one of the cover slips down. Not deterred he gets some more. Shufai obviously hasn't seen the pole before. He fails to get anything and when he sits down you really feel sorry for him when he lowers his head, but then he has a little swing instead and all seemed fine. Later he tries again and this time he manages to pull the plastic apart.

Gorilla Brothers Lope And Shufai

Shufai is beating his chest at Lope. He seems to want to play. Lope tries to get away at first, but then both have a embracing each other. A sweet moment between those two. When Lope gets away again, his brother follows and tackles him again.



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Gorilla Mum Ozala Has No Mercy When Food Is About

Gorilla mum Ozala loves her food and when someone else has some that she wants, she steals it. No mercy. When Lope, her eldest at Twycross Zoo is having a snack from the food Log, mum watches closely and then charges Lope and chases after him. When Shufai her youngest son could get more salad than her, she just steps over him to get quicker to the other platform to get to the food. Lope knows Ozala is coming and jump away keeping his distance, but Ozala still charges at him, shufai running after the two. When Ozala and Shufai sit on a ground to feed on some grass, Ozala pushes her baby son out of the way. When Shufai manages to gets a Carrot, Ozala steals it off him. At Halloween last year Ozala wrestled the bag away of Shufai, but that was too much for the little guy, he didn't give up easily and tried with all his power to get it back. When Shufai has a nice Tomato she just steals it out of her hand.
Ozala is not usually like this and she is a great mum, just not so much when there is food about, she lets everybody know that she has first choice. She probably needs to keep up her strength as well to cope with two rascals like Lope and Shufai :-)
This is a compilation of new and old clips.
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Meerkats Spectators Fascinated By Gorillas Squabble

It's like the meerkats are watching a wwe match, they look that excited and intrigued.  Another mixed enclosure for the Gorillas. This one is from the Artis Zoo in the Netherlands. The gorillas and Meerkats live together, they've also got some Diana Monkeys, but I only spotted them in the corner of my eye high above.

The gorillas decided they have a chase and a squabble and the meerkats are watching it all with interest. Even though they nearly get run over by the western lowland gorillas, they're coming back to watch some more and edging forward slowly. They don't seem to want to miss anything. When the gorillas decide they have a chase, the meerkats start to jump up and down what looks like to get a better good look where gorillas are. The nimbble meerkats quickly jump out of the way when the primates come back round and continue to watch them.

I know some worry about the meerkats being together with the gorillas that they might get hurt. The meerkats seem to know what they letting themselves in for. Meaning they aren't hiding away in their own dens or spaces, which they have. They actively spent time close to the gorillas. They're so nimble that they can can quickly move out of the way.





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Honey On The Big Ball Is Finger Licking Good For Gorilla Asante

Earlier this week you so Gorilla Lope not being sure about the ball in the enclosure. That gave Asante the chance to have her share of honey and she truly loved it. She's licking it off the ball and uses her fingers to get the rest. I love it when she wipes the honey off gently with her finger and then licks it off her fingers. Such a gentle soul.
Thank you for your poll on my community page! Who guessed correctly that it was Asante? 😁
NEWS:
From next week Thursday (9th May 2019) I will publish an extra gorilla video a week from different zoos from the Netherlands until I run out. I had some more videos that I'll hope you like from the the Dutch zoos, but I didn't want to publish them on the usual gorilla days, as some of you would miss Lope & Family.
So Mondays & Fridays it’s still the usual gorilla videos! Thursday will be an extra Dutch gorilla video day until I run out ( probably around 4 Thursdays, I'll have to see how much footage I've got).
Enjoy and thank you for all your comments, subscriptions and views!!!
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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.
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 with his mate Mayani and they recently had a baby girl called Thandie!
Ti died in 26 Feb 2007, the cause of it 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.

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Chases, Charges And Belly Flops From The Gorillas

Gorilla brothers Lope and Shufai have a chase around their hut with Silverback dad Oumbi and grandma Biddy watching. Oumbi then has a little charge down the hill, but watch Lope and Shufai in the background! Lope does his famous belly flop down hill, nearly pulling grandma with him and Shufai looked like he was warning grandma to watch out Lope is coming. Afterwards the siblings continue their chase with another one of Lopes belly flop down the slope.



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Jambo The Hairless Chimps Balancing Act

Jambo the hairless chimp from the Twycross Zoo in England is balancing on the rope. He doesn't look the most comfortable ape up there and is wobbling quite a bit. It was definitely easier getting up then down. The last bits he decides to just slide the rest of the way, trying to balance carefully.



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