Editing Colo (gorilla) (section)

==Life==

The Columbus Zoo first introduced gorillas in 1951. It was in 1956 that two gorillas first produced offspring in the zoo. The gorilla was named Colo, short for Columbus.
After she was rejected at birth by her mother, zookeepers had to hand-raise Colo. They hand-raised her much like a human child, by dressing her in clothes and giving her bottles of [[Infant formula|formula]].<ref name="Popular Science Monthly 1960">{{cite journal|title=Popular Science Monthly|journal=Popular Science Monthly|date=1960|volume=176|pages=83–4}}</ref> At the age of two years, Colo was introduced to a 19-month-old male from [[Africa]] called Bongo. Colo and Bongo had three offspring; Emmy on February 1, 1968, Oscar on July 18, 1969, and Toni on December 28, 1971.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.zooborns.com/zooborns/2012/12/oldest-known-gorilla-in-the-world-celebrates-birthday-at-columbus-zoo.html|title=World's Oldest Gorilla Celebrates Birthday at Columbus Zoo|access-date=2016-09-08|archive-date=2016-09-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160915141759/http://www.zooborns.com/zooborns/2012/12/oldest-known-gorilla-in-the-world-celebrates-birthday-at-columbus-zoo.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

On April 25, 1979, Columbus Zoo had its first third generation birth. The infant was named Cora, short for Central Ohio Rare Ape. On January 27, 1997, Colo's great-grandson Jantu was born. A birth at the [[Henry Doorly Zoo]] made Colo a great-great-grandmother in 2003.<ref name=GG>{{cite web|url=http://gorillagenealogy.web44.net/index.php?p=1_16|title=Columbus — Gorilla Genealogy – Charts & Family Trees for Gorillas in Captivity|access-date=2016-09-08|archive-date=2016-09-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160916142157/http://gorillagenealogy.web44.net/index.php?p=1_16|url-status=dead}}</ref> Although Colo did not raise any of her own offspring, she reared her twin grandsons, Macombo II and Mosuba, from birth.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Grzimek|first1=Bernhard |title=Grzimek's Animal life encyclopedia {{!}} Volume 10 - Mammals 1|year=1984|publisher=Van Nostrand Reinhold.|location=New York|isbn=9780442230449|page=540|edition=English}}</ref> Colo also acted as a guardian for her grandson, named J.J. after "Jungle" [[Jack Hanna]] with whom he shares a birthday.<ref name="Pimm2011">{{cite book|author=Nancy Roe Pimm|title=Colo's Story: The Life of One Grand Gorilla|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yT20FaiK9P4C&pg=PA41|date=1 January 2011|publisher=Lerner Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-9841554-4-6|pages=41–2}}</ref>

Colo was held at the Columbus Zoo and has been there longer than any other animal in the zoo's captive animal collection. Colo and her progeny, five of whom are still held at the Columbus Zoo, comprised about one-third of the Zoo's 17 captive gorillas as of 2015.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/slightlyblurred/6236728332/|title=Gorilla Family – Columbus|date=12 October 2011|access-date=18 January 2017|archive-date=1 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170201235557/https://www.flickr.com/photos/slightlyblurred/6236728332/|url-status=live}}</ref>

Colo became the oldest living gorilla in captivity following the death of 55-year-old [[Jenny (gorilla)|Jenny]] in September 2008.<ref name=fwst>{{cite news |title=55-year-old gorilla dies at Dallas Zoo |url=http://www.star-telegram.com/dallas_news/story/888756.html|agency=[[Associated Press]]|publisher=[[Fort Worth Star Telegram]]|date=2008-09-06 |access-date=2008-09-28}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref> Colo celebrated her 60th birthday on December 22, 2016.<ref name="columbuszoo"/> The Columbus Zoo announced that Colo died in her sleep on January 17, 2017.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://columbuszoo.org/home/about/press-releases/press-release-articles/2017/01/17/columbus-zoo-announces-the-death-of-colo|title=Columbus Zoo Announces the Death of Colo, World's Oldest Zoo Gorilla|access-date=2017-01-17|archive-date=2017-01-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170122062105/https://columbuszoo.org/home/about/press-releases/press-release-articles/2017/01/17/columbus-zoo-announces-the-death-of-colo|url-status=dead}}</ref>