Overview
- Disney marked World Gorilla Day by commemorating Gino, the 44-year-old western lowland gorilla, at Animal Kingdom.
- The Disney Conservation Fund pledged $500,000 to the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund and GRACE to help safeguard a 3,500-square-kilometer forest corridor in the DRC.
- Born in 1980 in Rotterdam and relocated to Animal Kingdom in 1997, Gino served as a public ambassador at the park for nearly three decades.
- He pioneered awake cardiac ultrasound training for gorillas, a practice now used by dozens of accredited zoos to improve care.
- A key contributor to the AZA Gorilla Species Survival Plan, he sired 14 offspring across seven states and even inspired the program’s logo.