El mencionado Zoológico mantenía también a Barón Macombo y Millie Christina, devenidos en los padres de Colo, el primer gorila nacido en un zoológico, el 22 de diciembre de 1956 en el de Columbus. I didn’t know any of that.’ I hope for just one second, they’ll care about gorillas. Los tres fueron vendidos al Zoológico de Columbus por 10,000. I didn’t know they were funny, I didn’t know they’re kind to one another. “I hope that at least for one second somebody pauses and says to themselves, ‘Oh I didn’t know. Basic Facts Columbus is the capital of Ohio When the Ohio government was looking for a location for its capital in the early 1800s, members wanted a place. She hopes the book will dispel the notion that these gentle, intelligent and highly endangered primates are chest-beating brutes. In an interview, she said she was fortunate to work at the Columbus Zoo in the 1980s and ’90s, during a time when better facilities and new insights enabled the staff to improve the lives of gorillas. When she does, he vocalizes gorilla satisfaction while at last enjoying his treat.Īrmstrong started at the zoo as a volunteer in 1980, soon became an employee and worked there until leaving to lead a conservation program for the Brevard Zoo in Melbourne, Florida, in 2000. “His expression brings to mind an exasperated eye-roll you might see in a human when slightly annoyed,” she writes.įinally, she realizes that he wants her to peel and section it.
Armstrong, then a novice just learning the quirks of the animals in her care, repeatedly tossing an orange to the silverback Bongo, who repeatedly pushes it back outside the bars of his enclosure.“She walked carefully, balancing her chosen headgear, like a preteen girl carrying a book on her head in order to improve her posture.” Colo, famously the first gorilla born in captivity, turning coconut husks and metal pans into hats.
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We quietly exited the building, leaving Mac to his memories, both of us touched.” “Mac had not had bedding material for nest-building since being taken from the forests of Africa 30 years prior as an infant. Baron Macombo (Mac), a silver-back, seemingly transported back in time by the gift of a bale of hay.Īrmstrong and a colleague found him softly vocalizing as he methodically built a circular nest, like a craftsman talking to himself while engrossed in his work.Armstrong takes readers to the other side of the glass with peeks such as these: Gorillas, she writes, are “unnervingly” like us, exactly the feeling I get when I see them in zoos. But I was fascinated by her backstage look at gorilla life.
Armstrong, who is retired and still lives in Columbus, writes about her colleagues, her bosses (including Jack Hanna, director emeritus of the Columbus Zoo, whom she praises) and her interest in conservation.
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