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Colo (December 22, 1956 – January 17, 2017) was a western gorilla widely known as the first gorilla to be born in captivity anywhere in the world and

journalist Zeno Colò (1920–1993), Italian alpine skier Nando de Colo (born 1987), French basketball player Colo (film) Colo (gorilla), the first gorilla born into

The western gorilla (Gorilla gorilla) is a great ape found in Africa, one of two species of the hominid genus Gorilla. Large and robust with males weighing

Gorillas are large, primarily herbivorous, great apes that live in the tropical forests of equatorial Africa. The genus Gorilla is divided into two species:

was able to walk upright. Colo (1956–2017) was both the first gorilla born in captivity and, living to be 60, the oldest gorilla in captivity. She was born

lowland gorilla who lived at the Cincinnati Zoo. On May 28, 2016, a three-year-old boy visiting the zoo climbed under a fence into an outdoor gorilla enclosure

September 4, 2008, at the age of 55. Colo, a gorilla who was kept at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium and was the first gorilla ever born in captivity, succeeded

nicknamed "Koko" (July 4, 1971 – June 19, 2018) was a female western lowland gorilla born in the San Francisco Zoo and cross-fostered by Francine Patterson

Following the death of Colo in January 2017, she was the oldest known living gorilla in the world (together with German gorilla Fatou), reaching 63 years

of Colo, the first gorilla born in a zoo, in Columbus on 22 December 1956. She was the first gorilla born in captivity as well as the first gorilla in