Trudy
- July 24, 2019
- 63 years
About Trudy
Trudy, 63, American gorilla, world's oldest gorilla in captivity.
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|Trudy (1956 - 24 July 2019) was a western lowland gorilla residing in Little Rock, Arkansas, in the United States. She was estimated to have been born in 1956 or 1957 in the wild. Following the death of Colo in January 2017, she was the oldest known living gorilla in the world (together with German gorilla Fatou), reaching 63 years of age. She died the night of July 24, 2019.
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