[monkeywire] World's oldest fertile gorilla and orang-utan jointly turn 50
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ugarte at rickblaine.com
Thu Dec 6 11:05:01 EST 2007
World's oldest fertile gorilla, orang-utan turn 50
http://africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnL06159364.html
BERLIN, Dec 6 (Reuters Life!) - The world's oldest fertile gorilla and
orang-utan in captivity, Matze and Charly, jointly celebrated their
50th birthdays with a cake each at Frankfurt Zoo on Thursday.
Matze the gorilla was born in central Africa in 1957 and spent the
first years of his life with a troupe of showmen before arriving in
Frankfurt in 1962, the zoo said. Charly, born in northern Sumatra, has
been at Frankfurt Zoo since 1978.
"Each received a cake made with pastry and mandarin with cream on top
-- but with no sugar," zoo spokeswoman Caroline Liefke said.
Both are great grandfathers, Matze having fathered 17 children -- the
latest in April -- while Charly has sired more than 18, with the
offspring of both spread all over the world.
(Reporting by Iain Rogers; Editing by Catherine Evans)
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