Amani

Amani (born 1st January 1973) is a western lowland gorilla who currently resides at Fort Worth Zoo, Forth Worth, Texas, U.S. She was born on the 1st January 1973 in Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden, Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S, where she resided for the first 19 years of her life, until she was transferred to Fort Worth Zoo on the 5th November 1992. She was transferred from Cincinnati Zoo due to the arrival of silverback Colossus, who needed more room. She left for Cincinnati Zoo alongside fellow members of her troop, Ramses I, Babec and Kamari. Amani was born to Mahari and Hatari, but was hand reared by zookeepers. Between 1980-1992, she had several children with Ramses I: Bawang, Muke, Mlinzi, Rapunzel, Kubatizak, Winifred, and Babuka, all of whom, apart from Kubatizak are still alive as of 2020. Amani is related to several other geriatric gorillas, Ramses I (1971-), the father of her children, Rosie (1974-2018), the mother of her children’s half-siblings, Samantha (1970-2020), the aunt of her children, or their half-siblings and Gigi (1972-2019), the aunt of her children, or their half-siblings.