Fatou is a gorilla residing at Berlin Zoo, Germany. She was born on January 1, 1957, in the wild, 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.
