Fatou

Fatou is a gorilla currently residing at Berlin Zoo in Berlin, Germany and is also the oldest known living gorilla in the world and the joint-oldest known gorilla ever. She was born in 1957 in West Africa and brought to France by a sailer in 1959. She was then acquired by The Berlin Zoo. She has a long-running companionship with Elisabeth Engel, a 91-year old Berliner who visits Fatou very week and claims that Fatou solved her heart problems. Fatou is also know for being the mother of Dufte, a gorilla bone in 1974 who was the first gorilla to be raised in Berlin. She was the joint-oldest known living gorilla in the world, serving with Trudy, however Trudy died in the 24th July 2019. She was predeceased by Colo as the world’s oldest known, who died on the 17th January 2017.