2018 Toronto Zoo. Gorilla Baby Received Her Name (4K, images)

The Toronto Zoo hosted a name and gender reveal event this morning in the African Rainforest Pavilion for the Zoo’s latest addition, a baby gorilla born on Thursday, June 7, 2018. The Zoo is excited to announce the confirmed gender of the baby gorilla is female and she will be named ‘Charlie’. With Father’s Day right around the corner, it is fitting the new female gorilla has been named ‘Charlie’ by Wildlife Care Staff as a namesake of her father Charles, the Zoo’s 46 year-old silverback male and patriarch. Charles came to the Toronto Zoo as an orphan in 1974 and has come to be one of our most iconic Zoo residents. He has proven himself to be an ideal example of what a silverback represents, siring 10 surviving offspring and being grandfather to six gorillas. The keepers traditionally name the baby with the first initial of their mother’s name however, they felt that with this new birth it was time to honour the patriarch of the Toronto Zoo’s Western lowland gorilla troop, Charles

by NewCa.com, 14-Jun-2018 07:10 PM