3:00 snapshot #1181

The cold winter sun pours in through the translucent ceiling of the Tropical Forest exhibit.



Looking down at the pygmy hippo exhibit.

G'rillers

I should have a tag for Little Joe since he appears so often in this journal. Suffice it to say you can click the "gorillas" link below and see lots of Joe and his family. Joe is about to turn 20 years old, and is the largest gorilla at the Tropical Forest at over 420 lbs.

He was a lad of only 10 (but a large animal to be sure) when he became the most famous gorilla in New England when he briefly left the zoo. I'm enjoying telling guests who bring it up (there are many) that the event is now a decade in the past. A multi-million dollar redesign has ensured that no future exploits will occur.



Kambiri is the youngest gorilla in the exhibit, a female born in November of 2010. Here she's scaled a large fake fallen tree trunk in the exhibit, dangling about ten feet over the ground. Zookeepers watch helplessly and nervously as she tests the limits of her own agility.