Thanks to Colo, the Columbus Zoo is recognized worldwide as a leader in gorilla breeding, care, habitat, and conservation. For ten years, Colo's grandsons, Mosuba and Macombo II, were the only gorilla twins born in the western hemisphere! Colo is also the great grandmother of Timu, the first surviving infant gorilla conceived by artificial insemination. She gave birth to Emmy, the first second-generation gorilla born in captivity and became a grandmother when Cora, the first third-generation gorilla, was captive born. Colo's birth enabled the Columbus Zoo to demonstrate that gorillas could have babies in captivity and to contribute the information that Millie's gestation period was about 250 days-an important fact at a time when very little was known about gorillas.Ĭolo is also special for several other reasons.
and measured only 15 inches long) had a profound affect on the zoo world. Such a small baby (she weighed just 3.75 lbs.
#MACOMBO AND MOSUBA MAC#
Millie and Mac arrived in Columbus on January 8, 1951. Said, called his friend, Columbus Zoo Superintendent Earl Davis, who agreed to take the gorillas in the emergency. Millie and Mac arrived in New York on December 22, 1950, during a snowstorm with no planned destination!! Mr. She was born to Millie (also known as Christina) and Baron Macombo (Mac for short) who were captured by "Gorilla Bill" Said, of Bexley, Ohio, in an area of Africa then known as French Cameroon. Colo, a Western lowland gorilla, became the first gorilla to be born in captivity. On December 22, 1956, a very special gorilla was born at the Columbus Zoo & Aquarium. Colo was born at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium on December 22, 1956. Colo was the first gorilla born in captivity.
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