Ivan (gorilla)
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Ivan was a western lowland gorilla born in 1962 in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He was captured from the wild as a baby and brought to live with humans. For the first few years of
Ivan in 2009
A placard at the Point Defiance Zoo in memory of Ivan
The Urban Gorilla
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The Urban Gorilla is a 1991 documentary television film from National Geographic Explorer and ArgoFilms. The film explores the lives of gorillas in an urban environment. The Urban Gorilla was narrated
Ivan (gorilla)
…Ivan from the B&I shopping center to be re-homed within Seattle's Woodland Park Zoo. In 1991, National Geographic Explorer aired a documentary entitled The Urban Gorilla. The film featured Ivan in his small enclosure and another gorilla, Willie B., who had previously been living in similar circumstances but had since…
Director/producer Allison Argo on the set of The Urban Gorilla