The three gorillas that arrived in Gabon from Howletts in July 2008 are all doing well. Kouki and Oudiki are now completely at home in the forest and even Tiya is climbing and playing. We were worried that she might have been damaged at birth because she was so late in walking, but it seems that life in the forest has had a remarkable effect on her.
Helene and Oudiki
The three have been joined by a wild born female called Lekoko who had undergone an extensive quarantine because the poor little girl had a horrible skin disease which she probably caught when she was captured by poachers. Lekoko seems sweet natured but a real fighter, not at all bowed by the terrible experience she must have been through.
Unfortunately she has an already well bonded group into which she has to assimilate and Kouki and Oudiki make her know her place.
