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Fatou the gorilla celebrates 61st birthday at Berlin zoo
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From https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/veteran-gorilla-fatou-celebrates-61st-birthday-at-berlin-zoo/2018/04/13/0c816174-3f0f-11e8-955b-7d2e19b79966_story.html?utm_term=.11a9ff607dd8
Fatou the gorilla celebrates 61st birthday at Berlin zoo
The female Gorilla Fatou eats a ‘rice-cake’ to celebrate her 61st birthday at the zoo in Berlin, Germany, Friday, April 13, 2018. According to Zoo officials Fatou is together with Gorilla Trudy at a Zoo in Little Rock at the United State the oldest living female gorilla in the world. Both Gorillas are around 61 years. (Markus Schreiber/Associated Press)
By Associated Press April 13 at 8:17 AM
BERLIN — Fatou the gorilla, believed to be one of the world’s oldest, is celebrating her 61st birthday at Berlin’s zoo — nearly six decades after she found her way to Germany from a French bar.
Zookeepers on Friday presented Fatou a rice cake decorated with the number 61 in fruit.
The zoo says she shares the title of world’s oldest female gorilla with Trudy, a gorilla at the zoo in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Still, it’s not entirely clear how old she is. Fatou arrived in Berlin in 1959, finding her way there after a sailor used the young gorilla as payment at a bar in the French port city of Marseille.
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The female Gorilla Fatou eats a ‘rice-cake’ to celebrate her 61st birthday at the zoo in Berlin, Germany, Friday, April 13, 2018. According to Zoo officials Fatou is together with Gorilla Trudy at a Zoo in Little Rock at the United State the oldest living female gorilla in the world. Both Gorillas are around 61 years. (Markus Schreiber/Associated Press)
By Associated Press April 13 at 8:17 AM
BERLIN — Fatou the gorilla, believed to be one of the world’s oldest, is celebrating her 61st birthday at Berlin’s zoo — nearly six decades after she found her way to Germany from a French bar.
Zookeepers on Friday presented Fatou a rice cake decorated with the number 61 in fruit.
The zoo says she shares the title of world’s oldest female gorilla with Trudy, a gorilla at the zoo in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Still, it’s not entirely clear how old she is. Fatou arrived in Berlin in 1959, finding her way there after a sailor used the young gorilla as payment at a bar in the French port city of Marseille.
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She's the gorilla my dreams... 
... your slightly older sister.
I get subtle, especially when it's pointed out to me.
