To celebrate WORLD GORILLA DAY, our U.S., Rwanda, Uganda, and DR Congo teams gathered on Zoom® to have some fun coming up with our dream gorilla names! Turns out we are a pretty positive group of gorilla lovers! Especially Drs. Fabrice and Cedric who landed on the same name…Vutseme, meaning ‘Happiness’ or ‘Joyful’.

We were inspired after Dr. Gaspard, our senior field veterinarian in Rwanda had the honor of naming one of the baby mountain gorillas during Rwanda’s annual Kwita Izina ceremony earlier in the month. If you missed that story, read it HERE.

How about you? What name would you choose?

Our Dream Gorilla Names

Happy World Gorilla Day! From the Gorilla Doctors Team

 

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