{"id":1547,"date":"2026-12-22T00:39:02","date_gmt":"2026-12-22T05:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1547"},"modified":"2026-01-01T00:09:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T05:09:00","slug":"colo-is-the-first-gorilla-born-in-captivity-in-1956-at-the-columbus-ohio-zoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1547","title":{"rendered":"Colo Was the First Gorilla Born in Captivity in 1956 at the Columbus, Ohio, Zoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 161px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/5\/52\/ColoAtZoo.JPG\/360px-ColoAtZoo.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"151\" height=\"202\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Colo<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Colo<\/span>\u00a0was the first gorilla born in captivity in 1956 at the <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Col<\/span>umbus, <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">O<\/span>hio, Zoo<\/strong>. At birth she weighed a little more than three pounds. She had three children, sixteen grandchildren, twelve great-grandchildren, and three great-great-grandchildren. She was the oldest gorilla in captivity until she died on January 17, 2017. Children could read <em>Colo\u2019s Story: the Life of One Grand Gorilla<\/em>, by Nancy Roe Pimm. Children can view a <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">terrific video<\/span><\/strong> about her at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=H_L4l7FLd6I\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Colo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colo\u00a0was the first gorilla born in captivity in 1956 at the Columbus, Ohio, Zoo. At birth she weighed a little more than three pounds. She had three children, sixteen grandchildren, twelve great-grandchildren, and three great-great-grandchildren. She was the oldest gorilla in captivity until she died on January 17, 2017. Children could read Colo\u2019s Story: the <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1547' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4394,4619,4620,4615,442,4621],"class_list":["post-1547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4394","tag-colo","tag-columbus","tag-december-22","tag-ohio","tag-oldest-living-gorilla-in-captivity","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1547"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20536,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547\/revisions\/20536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}