Fatou, World's Oldest Gorilla Celebrates 65th Birthday In Berlin

JAKARTA - Good news comes from Germany, where the gorilla known to be the world's oldest, has just celebrated its new age, making it now more than 15 than the average age for gorillas in captivity.

Fatou, a western lowland gorilla believed to be the world's oldest, just celebrated his 65th birthday at the Berlin Zoo, Germany.

"Our female gorilla celebrates her 65th birthday today, making her the oldest gorilla in the world", the zoo wrote on Instagram, launching CNN on April 17.

"The traditional birthday cake is also not to be missed this year. Birthday food has always been something very special for Fatou", continued the zoo.

The photos included in the post-show the large primate enjoying a cake decorated with berries and fruit to form the number "65."

It is understood Fatou arrived in Berlin in 1959 through what the zoo described as "unusual circumstances" in a news release from his 61st birthday.

A sailor uses a young gorilla to pay tabs at a tavern in Marseilles, France. After that, he was transported across Europe before being bought by a zoo in Germany. He was thought to be only two years old at the time of his arrival.

In 2019, Fatou was named "the oldest living gorilla in captivity" by Guinness World Records after Trudy, a gorilla born in 1956, died.

Not only that, Fatou is the only animal at the Berlin Zoo to be born in the wild, according to a news release.

To note, in captivity, gorillas usually live to the age of 50 years, according to Guinness records.