1. Complete the front of the printout using any medium, style or theme you choose. (Digital or traditional—you decide!) Don't have a printer at home? No worries! Use whatever materials you have at home to draw, paint, write, collage or craft your gorilla wish—extra points for creativity!
2. Don’t forget to write in your wishes for the baby and add your name
3. When you're ready to submit your wish, take a photo of your wish or scan it to upload and submit your entry as a jpeg file. All entries must be submitted by June 12, 2020
4. Submit your wish card

We joyfully announce the birth of a western lowland gorilla. First-time mom, Uzumma, gave birth to a boy on March 4, 2020 at 2:48 a.m.

This baby is the first between 12-year-old Uzumma and 20-year-old Kwame, who moved from Smithsonian’s National Zoo in 2018. This newborn marks the 14th gorilla birth at Woodland Park Zoo. The last birth was Yola, a female born in November 2015. The new mom and her baby are off view in the cozy, sleeping dens so they can bond in a hushed, comfortable environment and staff can closely monitor them.

Find out more on the zoo blog

Photo credit Mondika Gorilla Project

Established in 1998, the Goualougo Triangle Ape Project was founded with the aim of preserving wildlife in the Congo Basin by studying the apes, the ecosystems, and the forces that threaten their survival. In 2014, the study area expanded to include the Djeke Triangle region outside the Nouabale-Ndoke National Park – resulting in the Mondika Gorilla Project.

The program is currently monitoring specific aspects of ape coexistence, forest ecology and change, and ape-human health risks. Local communities and indigenous people assist in addressing the opportunity-challenge nexus that factors significantly in the ape-human overlap that typifies ape sites in this region.