Fatou’s 69th birthday marks Berlin Zoo’s oldest captive gorilla

Fatou, the world’s oldest gorilla in captivity, turned 69 at Berlin Zoo with a vegetable feast and a Guinness World Records nod. A western lowland gorilla who has lived at the zoo since 1959, Fatou is a mother and grandmother whose keeper says she has a “dignified manner” and serves as an ambassador for her species, highlighting conservation concerns for gorillas in the wild.