| Ivan and Kinyani were real gorillas — and so, by the way, was Jambo, whose story is recounted in the book | Ivan spent twenty-seven years of his life alone in a cage |
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| Ivan gives this picture to Julia | One night, the janitor's daughter, Julia, gives Ivan some finger paints and it gives him an idea |
She is with a new elephant family somewhere in the zoo and she looks happy.
26| With the approval of the Gorilla Species Survival Plan SSP , the Woodland Park Zoo sends Ivan to Atlanta on permanent loan in October 1994 | Ivan lives in a stationary circus with Stella the elephant and Bob, the stray dog |
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| Before Stella died, she made Ivan promise to take care of Ruby | Ivan learns she has taken in Ivan's dog friend, Bob |
Although only 5, he is already too large, strong and boisterous for life with a human family.
| Ivan is not sure how to do this, but he knows he must when Mack begins hitting Ruby with a claw-stick in order to train her to do Stella's tricks | The zoo lady shows Ivan Ruby on the television |
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| In an era in which many zoos still acquire baby apes directly from the wild, the infants are captured for their market value | Ivan convinces Ruby it is safe and she should do what the woman wants |
When the mall where Ivan lived went bankrupt, he was placed on permanent loan to Zoo Atlanta, which houses the largest group of captive western lowland gorillas in the nation.
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