Fatou (born ) is a gorilla residing at
Berlin Zoo
The Berlin Zoological Garden (, ) is the oldest surviving and best-known zoo in Germany. Opened in 1844, it covers and is located in Berlin's Tiergarten. With about 1,380 different species and over 20,200 animals, the zoo presents one of the ...
, Germany. She was born in West Africa, and was brought from West Africa to France by a sailor in 1959. She was then acquired by the Berlin Zoo. On October 30, 1974, she gave birth to the first gorilla to be raised in Berlin, Dufte.
Since the death of
Trudy on 24 July 2019, she became the
oldest living gorilla in the world.
On 25 July 2020 she surpassed Trudy's final age of 63 years, 204 days and became the oldest gorilla ever. After the death of Helen, on 14 October 2022, Fatou became the last surviving gorilla born in the 1950s.
Through her only offspring, Dufte, Fatou is a grandmother of two, great-grandmother of 13 (five living), great-great-grandmother of 20 (twelve living) and great-great-great-grandmother of three.
References
Individual gorillas
1957 animal births
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Berlin Zoological Garden