The Gorilla Family

Posted on Oct 1, 2007 at 9:30 AM in Uncategorized

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I don’t actually know that these gorillas, from Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo, are related, but I like to imagine they are. The adorable baby would clap his hands and beat his chest (almost like he was just pretending to be a real gorilla) and then go jump on the medium-sized gorilla for a game of “tickle-wrestle,” as Jeremy and Liv call it. In fact, the whole time I watched the little one goad the bigger one into wrestling, I couldn’t help but think of the way Livia loves to jump on Jeremy until he’ll, well, tickle-wrestle. The funny thing was Big Mama, the gorilla I imagine as the matriarch. She never moved her hefty belly at all, but just sat and GLARED at the zoo patrons. I’m watchin’ you and I don’t trust you one bit. Hilarious.

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  1. Bethany Oct 1, 2007 4:25 PM

    From what I remember from the last time I was at the HD Zoo, they are related – I believe Big Momma is the grandmother, the little one is the granddaughter, and there’s an aunt in the mix somewhere too. Or something like that.

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