When baby gorilla celebrates its first month of life, Bioparc Valencia wants to celebrate this event that only happens once in a lifetime. This first gorilla born in Valencia gives us some of the most tender images of nature and we want to make it easier for the entire society to contemplate them. Starting this Saturday, adults will enter at the child's price and children up to 16 years old will receive €1 in solidarity destined for the Bioparc Foundation.
Wednesday, November 21, 2012. Bioparc Valencia wants to share with Valencian society and with the whole world, the historic event for the city how is he birth of the first gorilla, which consolidates the Valencian zoo as a world reference.
Therefore, to celebrate the first month of life of the baby gorilla, the promotion is launched “There are things that only happen once in a lifetime.” y from November 24 to January 6, grown ups they will have a rate as a child (18 €) and children, accompanied by an adult, they will collaborate with €1 intended for the Bioparc Foundation, that carries out conservation projects for endangered species. Bioparc Valencia shows once again its support and commitment to society, with initiatives that encourage values such as solidarity and environmental conservation.
This special action aims facilitate access to all families and to the entire public, so that everyone can have the opportunity to meet the first baby gorilla born in Bioparc Valencia. It is a unique opportunity to watch “a live documentary” that shows us one of the most beautiful images of nature, such as the tenderness and affection with which the female gorilla takes care of her baby. Furthermore, to ensure that especially all boys and girls can meet the baby gorilla, the “childhood” age has been extended to 16 years, and large families, with the purchase of two tickets by the parents, will be able to enter all children for €1 each.
In Bioparc Valencia there are two groups of gorillas that live in the Equatorial Forests. He group of single males and the breeding group. Bioparc Valencia is part of a select group of zoos worldwide that have the appropriate characteristics to house a reproductive group of this charismatic primate species found in serious danger of extinction.
Mambie is the male that lives with the females Fossey and Ali. The little one's mother has been Ali. She arrived at Bioparc Valencia at the end of March 2011 from the Ramat-Gan Zoological Center (Tel Aviv) in Israel. This female was born on April 29, 2000 and its incorporation into Bioparc Valencia It was a recommendation of the European Captive Breeding Program of Endangered Species (EEP).
