Moshu was known as "Sir Snacks-a-Lot."
(June 20, 2011 – May 14, 2025)

Moshu was diagnosed with severe heart disease over a
year ago.
(KATU)

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — After a lengthy 20-month
pregnancy, Rose-Tu, a 30-year-old Asian elephant at
the Oregon Zoo, gave birth to a healthy female calf
at 4:29 p.m. on Saturday February 1st.
 

The newborn, weighing around 200 pounds, is bonding
with her mother as zoo staff maintain a respectful
distance.

On December 22, 1956, a baby gorilla named Colo entered the
world at the Columbus Zoo in Ohio, becoming the first-ever
gorilla born in captivity. Weighing in at approximately 4 pounds,
Colo, a western lowland gorilla whose name was a combination
of Columbus and Ohio, was the daughter of Millie and Mac, two
gorillas captured in French Cameroon, Africa, who were brought
to the Columbus Zoo in 1951.

Mother Millie with her daughter Colo who died in 2017.

On December 22, 1956, a baby gorilla named Colo entered the
world at the Columbus Zoo in Ohio, becoming the first-ever
gorilla born in captivity.

Before Colo’s birth, gorillas found at zoos were caught in the
wild, often by brutal means. In order to capture a gorilla when
it was young and therefore still small enough to handle,
hunters frequently had to kill the gorilla’s parents and other
family members.  

Colo was fond of baseball caps.

Colo on her 60^th birthday, surpassed the median life expectancy for female gorillas in human care (37.5 years) by more than two
decades.

Colo became a mother of three, grandmother of 16, great-
grandmother of 12 and great-great-grandmother of three.

She died in her sleep January 17, 2017, less than a month
after her birthday.

PORTLAND, Ore. — Neka, the oldest member of the
Oregon Zoo’s African lion pride, had a seizure and 
died Friday night at age 16.

Zoo officials stated that wild female lions rarely live
past 16  years old.

Neka with one of her cubs.