Jumbo is one of the funniest gorillas that live in the Limbe Wildlife Centre. She loves to get attention and therefore she has developed a special dance to attract visitors. When she sees somebody new she starts with her special dance. It is always entertaining for the visitors but also for the other gorillas.
It is interesting to note that Jumbo even seems to have an ear for music. One day a dance group was visiting the LWC and they brought with them drummers and other musicians. Jumbo was studying them closely from the mango tree in the gorilla enclosure. When the music started, not only the dancers started their performance, but also Jumbo up in the tree. She was standing up straight, moving her body and beating her chest to the rhythm of the music. At some point she was even standing on one leg, lifting and shaking the other one. She seemed to have as much fun as all the people who were watching her.
Jumbo is also a very intelligent gorilla. She is always observing the keepers to check out what they are doing. If they make the slightest mistake she will notice, and make use of it. Jumbo has stolen a lot of brooms after she noticed that somebody left them to close to the fence. Once she stole a camera with a stick that she put between the wires of the fence. Though she likes to tease, Jumbo is never aggressive. However, she can be very naughty. If you visit Limbe Wildlife Centre and see a gorilla that picks its nose all the time, you have probably met Jumbo!
16.11.2009 Twiggs was born in the wild in Cameroon around the year 1997. She and another female gorilla, Brighter, was smuggled across the border to Nigeria as infants to be sold as pets on the locale pet marked.
09.11.2009 When Pitchou was very small, she was brought to Hotel Ilomba in Kribi to be sold, after her mother had been killed by hunters. She stayed there for three days, until the hotel owners could no longer bare to watch her suffer. The family donated her to the LWC.
02.11.2009 Chella came to Limbe Wildlife Centre when he was only two years old. He was found in the back of a bush-taxi sitting on his dead mother. Wildlife officials confiscated him and kept him three weeks before bringing him to the Wildlife Centre.
21.09.2009 Adjibolo came to Limbe Wildlife Centre when she was only about 6 months old. She was confiscated by senior civil servant in the Ministry of Agriculture, Mr. Adjibolo, from a hunter who tried to sell her.
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