Zooborns has an update today on Kambiri, the baby Western Lowland gorilla born at Franklin Park Zoo almost a year ago. This was Kambiri then:
And this is Kambiri now:
She got cuter, didn’t she? But the real reason I’m posting about her is because the Western Lowland gorilla has the best Latin name of all the animals, and on a grey and grizzly Monday you deserve to know about it. Meet gorilla gorilla gorilla.
reminds me of Boutros Boutros Ghali – except I just thought that was daft rather than wonderful. Doesn’t really compare though.
The pics and your post is so cute! Just came across your blog accidentally via a link from a link from a twitter buddy + then I scrolled down to see what else you had written!