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World's 'Oldest' Gorilla Celebrates With Cake

Animals  (tags: dallas, texas, zoolife, wildanimals, wildlife, big apes, gorilla, milestone, jenny, birthday, endangered, extinction, protection )

Jacquelin
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- 53 days ago - edition.cnn.com
DALLAS (AP) -- A gorilla recognized as the world's oldest in captivity celebrated her 55th birthday by munching down a four-layer frozen fruit cake and banana leaf wrapped treats. Jenny, the world's oldest gorilla in captivity, has marked her 55th bi
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Bette M. (487)
Sunday May 11, 2008, 4:31 pm
It is wonderful Jenny has lived this long. But it is as sad she isn't free......Free to be who she really is.........

Bless her heart!!!!!!!

"There is nothing
in which the birds differ
more from man than
the way in which they can
build and yet leave a landscape
as it was before." ~ Robert Lynd

PLANT TREES FOR LIFE....FOR SURVIVAL OF THE ANIMALS.......

 
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