Upright Walking Gorilla Lope Holding His Aubergines

Twycross Zoo must have got a big delivery of fresh aubergines (Eggplants). Gorilla Lope was the first one to get as many as he could. He sits himself down when he thinks he's protected from anyone stealing them. Drops them to the ground and starts eating. Meanwhile, Biddy, his grandma got some as well. She carried one with her food and the rest in her arms. Oumbi was let out a little later so that the females and the boys can get their first share. Lope is packing up and moving all his aubergines. He walks upright across the grass. While he's holding his aubergines tightly in his arms he looks over to his Mum Ozala who enjoys some as well. Lope continues to go inside past his grandma. Ozala is packing up and moving as well. She looks like she has black clown shoes on, carrying those aubergines with her feet. When I get inside. Lope is still sitting by the door eating. Oumbi is about and the door gives him a chance for a quick getaway and as soon as his dad comes closer he's back out of the door. He walks upright again and looks for a place to eat the rest of his fruit. I'm not sure where Shufai and Asante were. #sloggervlogger #sloggervloggergorillas #gorillafamily Don't forget to subscribe and hit that notification bell for more!

Famous Upright Walking Female Gorilla Tamba

During this video famous female Gorilla Tamba from the Port Lympne Wild animal park in Kent is walking upright (bipetal) a few times. She's the aunt of Gorilla Lope and Shufai and just like her famous brother Ambam. A real family trade. They don't just do it for a few seconds, they actually feel very comfortable walking in the upright position. 

If you watched this channel before, you know Gorilla Lope does it on a regular basis and his younger brother Shufai also walks upright. 

Tamba is waiting for some food at the feeding site. Here, the food gets thrown down from the roof. I'm not sure who the female was that was with her. A big branch of leaves gets thrown down which Tamba grabs and she straight away goes to the upright position with her branch of leaves in her hand. In her famous video, she did this with her newborn son Louango in her arms, who is now 4 years old. More from Louango next week. She walks to the rocks, climbs up and enjoys her lunch. She climbs back down and has the rest sitting on the grass. Just look at her, how she is standing there, it's just amazing. Tamba gathers some more food and even has a clap at the end. I didn't get Ambam walking upright, but Tamba made my day. The queen of upright walks. 

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All That Jazz - Orangutan Super Mum With Two Newborn Babies

Orangutan Mother Jazz (30) from the Dudley zoo became super mum as she's not just looking after her own 4-week-old baby boy Jim, now she's looking after her daughter's newborn baby as well, as her daughter found first-time motherhood a little bit challenging.
When her daughter Sprout gave birth and didn't know what to do, her mum Jazz quickly stepped in to save the day and took on her baby as well.
Jazz is carrying the two babies around with her. Nursing both and giving both love, care and attention. Staff is closely monitoring both babies and both mums.
Jazz holding the two babies, when she turns around and shows her back, the next clip is of her daughter Orangutan Sprout (11) climbing off the netting. Sprout looks quite subdued which is understandable. The stress of giving birth, combined with her losing her close relationship with her mum took its toll. Her world must have come crashing down as she and her mum Jazz were very close before the birth of Jim. When Jim came mum focused her attention on her newborn and daughter Sprout seemed to struggle with that situation, then Sprout herself gave birth last weekend (23-24th July 2022) and she didn't know what to do.
A few close-up shots of the babies and another clip of Sprout wearing her blonde wig. The last clip of Jazz tenderly cleaning the eyes of both of the babies. One with her finger, the other one with her tongue. Dad Djimat finds watching all a bit exhausting.
Normally dads get separated from their offspring, but Djimat is a gentle giant who is very tolerant of the Mothers and their babies.
In October 2021 the flanged male has joined Jazz and daughter Sprout. He arrived from Denmark Aalborg Zoo after a 30-hour trip to Dudley Zoo. The first Bornean orangutan to be moved since Brexit. A difficult assignment not just because of Brexit but because of Covid as well.
Dudley zoo also just opened their new Orangutan outdoor habitat that was finished a few weeks back. They are still getting used to the new enclosure which they already tried out before they had their babies. Today it seems the Orangutan mothers stayed inside, perhaps to be monitored more closely.

Orangutan Feels Left Out After New Baby Comes Along

Orangutan daughter Sprout seems to feel left out as mum puts all her energy in looking after the newborn. Orangutan Mum Jazz holding her newborn baby in her arms. When she's tired she puts the wood wool under the baby's head before she lies down. She spreads the wood wool, holding the little one in her arms and then she has a rest. Sprout is laying at the other end and she looks really sad and bored. Before the baby came, Sprout and mum were very close. Always cuddling, always there for each and never far apart. Seeing her there like that, you just want to cuddle her and say everything will be OK. We know it's difficult to adapt to the situation, but things will get better. #sloggervlogger #orangutans

Never Underestimate Your Baby Sister

Lowland gorilla baby Vuko (January 8th 2020) is wrestling her older brother Louango (May 25th 2018) to the ground at the Port Lympne Wild Animal Park. They still have their white bum spot. There is no definite answer why the little ones have this. Some say it's so mum can spot them easily when they are that young. Louango (this is Tamba's son, Tamba is Ambam's sister and Ambam is the brother of Oumbi) is putting his arm around his half-sister, but she's having none of it and pushes him flat into the grass. Not just that, she then sits on him to hold him down. Mind you, Louango is not putting up much of a fight, but what a move from the two-year-old. She knows what she wants, she's a feisty one. He grabs her shoulder and tries to get away, but his sister is not giving up that easily, she sits on his back instead. Piggybacking on her brother. She only moves when her brother slings both arms onto the back trying to get her off. She runs away, climbs on the log. Louango tries to grab her, but she leaps off the log into the grass. The western lowland gorilla boy reaches over the log to grab some of the plant. Meanwhile Vuko is running through the grass after her mum Viringika. Look at those little legs go. Climbing over the logs and then catching up with mum grabbing her back. At the feeding site, Louango caught up with her again and tries to steal some food from her, jumping after her, but she gets away, bumping into her mother and in the end, she has some food in both hands. #sloggervlogger #sloggervloggergorillas #gorillas

Gorilla Asante Witty Move Getting Her Own Back On Lope

Gorilla Asante from the Twycross Zoo really made me laugh, what an unexpected move from her in this video on the evening of Oumbi's Birthday, even Lope seemed surprised. Gorilla Lope is doing his usual, annoying a family member. Today it's Aunt Asante turn to annoy. Asante you might know is quite timid and likes to be on her own most of the time. Asante is enjoying her lettuces at the bottom of the slope when Lope suddenly charges at her. She puts her arms out to keep him away. No, no that wasn't the great move, that's still to come! At the top when Asante is by the hut. Lope still charges past her and then slides down the hill. A typical Lope move only the rascal himself can pull off. Like he's skateboarding down that slope😁. He tries to intimidate her by staring at her and when she she sits on top of the climbing frame, he sneaks up to her and stares at her again. You think Lope is going to charge in any minute, but then he climbs back down again. Inside Lope beats his chest at her. A close-up of Asante sucking her thumb When she turns around, Lope beats its chest at her again and then throws some wood wool at her. Asante hits him and moves to the other side. No, no that wasn't the great move either :-). Watch out for the next clip back outside. When Lope follows Asante and then walks past her to the window ( 30 on the window was for Oumbi's birthday party earlier that day) Lope looks through the window, but keep your eye on Asante, just after Shufai runs past with a tree branch in his hand. I had to loop this bit as I couldn't quite believe Asante was brave enough to do this to our rascal. I thought no, did that just happen? Then I couldn't stop laughing, watching it again. Lope just looked at her, probably thinking the same "Did that just happened" #SloggerVlogger #GorillaAsante GorillaLope

Shufai The Cartwheeling Gorilla

Lope covered himself with the hessian sack, birthday banner from his Dad's birthday. He runs past his mum and Shufai. Shufai then grabs it off him. He puts it on his head and walks over to the rocks. Mum follows but sits down on the rocks. Shufai goes to the other side. Sits down for the second looking at the banner. Next clip, he lays down on his back on the sack, feet in the air and then he pulls on the grass so he slides down the slope a little. Then he grabs the sack and rolls down, he gets up in he almost does a cartwheel and then a roll and a few more down the slope. Running back up and another roll. He then puts his cape on and walks to the hatch, punches it before he goes back inside. Watch out for Friday's video. Asante's Witty Move against Lope! Happy 4th July greetings from across the pond. :-)

Silverback Oumbi's Birthday Party

An extra video today. As you might know from my community post yesterday, it was Silverback Oumbi's 30th Birthday. Happy Birthday Oumbi. The staff paints a few 30th on the windows with some food paint. Oumbi watches from the inside waiting for the doors to open up. Unfortunatly even before Oumbi comes out one of the banners has already fallen to the ground. It was attached with sticky food and was a bit too heavy. Oumbi was most interested in the lettuces which he took and sat by the hut. Standing there with the bum towards me you can slightly see him twitching. Warning the others to stay away. Shufai came and he knew exactly where to look for more treats. He removed all the wood wool from the hammock and found a fire hose which has some leaves in it. A bit later, Lope, Oumbi's older son runs towards the water. Shufai follows his brother. Lope gets all the sticky food stuff, the 30 made out of food, that is on the rocks. As Shufai comes closer, Lope runs at him and hits him. Shufai rolls backwards. Biddy sitting in the middle. Shufai quickly climbs down to get any leftovers. Both the brothers run to the food puzzle which has some sticky stuff in it. Ozala, their mother is climbing down from the tree to get some treats as well. It doesn't take long until Lope is back at the puzzle. Lope is being clever this time, he has got a stick which he uses to get some more out. Ozala is now by the pool and she grabs all the pieces that are in the water which you don't see too often. Meanwhile Shufai is jumping on the window ledge and is licking off all the sticky stuff from there. Lope is watching him. Now Shufai is even standing up on the ledge to get some more. He's the only one that can still do this. The ledge is too small for Lope to balance on. Even Shufai hasn't got much room and when he loses the balance a bit he jumps down. Lope was just about to get some of the window himself when Oumbi came charging, which made him run the opposite way. Shufai jumped back up and had some more. Oumbi found the piece of paper that was stuck to the window and is licking off the sticky stuff. When he has enough he throws it to the side, but Shufai finds some more sticky stuff on the discarded sign. Lope was just about to go back to the puzzle, when Oumbi comes charging at him again. Oumbi isn't interested in that green puzzle, he just wanted the lettuces. He goes back inside and Shufai drags the sign inside. That's when Asante has a look at the green puzzle hanging off the tree. Before Asante goes back inside she tries to get some more of the sweet stuff off the window with her finger. Oumbi has a last look towards window with the 30 on it. My Travel, Days out and zoo hyperlapse YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/WatchAndSubTravel

Hilarious Gorilla Youngster Hates Rain

The Baby Gorilla called Lope from the Twycross Zoo in Atherstone England does not like the Rain! He's trying to wipe the rain from his head, pounding his chest before he storms off in a hilarious human Impression.