The famous mountain gorilla of the Virunga’s is dead
The famous Mountain Gorilla who stormed the internet with selfie modeling pictures with a ranger dies cuddled with the arms of her rescue as an infant!
- Orphaned mountain gorilla Ndakasi died at the age of 14 in the arms of park ranger Andre Bauma at the Virunga National Park in eastern Congo
- She was saved by Virunga park rangers when she was two-months-old after she was found clinging to her lifeless mother
- Ndakasi was cared for by Bauma who held her as an infant after her mother was gunned down by armed militia
- The gorilla rose to fame after she was pictured with fellow orphan Ndeze in a selfie with park ranger Mathieu Shamavu in 2019
SADNESS AND SORROWS- in the Virunga as the famous mountain gorilla who became a worldwide sensation after posing in a selfie with a park ranger has died in the arms of her ‘lifelong friend’ who rescued her as an infant.
Orphaned Ndakasi was pictured taking her last breath while being held by her caretaker Andre Bauma, 49, in a harrowing scene at the Virunga National Park in eastern Congo.
Ndakasi, who died aged 14, was saved by Virunga rangers when she was just two-months-old after they found her clinging to the lifeless body of her mother who had been gunned down by armed militia hours earlier. She was later transferred to the park’s Senkwekwe Center with a fellow orphaned gorilla Ndeze where the pair rose to internet fame when they appeared in a selfie with park ranger Mathieu Shamavu in 2019.
But after more than a decade of care at the Senkwekwe Centre, the ‘beloved’ gorilla died following a ‘prolonged illness in which her condition rapidly deteriorated’, a statement from the park said.
We are all saddened by this manner and let’s keep conserving the endangered species.