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Ivan (gorilla)
Ivan was a western lowland gorilla born in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo. He was captured from the wild as a baby and brought to live with humans, for the first few years of his life he lived with his owners, soon he got to big for a human house and they moved him to a 40' x 40' concrete enclosed on display for the public at B&I circus store in Tacoma, Washington (the state) for the next 27 years of his life. After local animal welfare organizations successfully campaigned for his release to a facility which could care for Ivan properly, he was placed at Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle. Shortly after this, he was placed on permanent loan to Zoo Atlanta in Atlanta, Georgia. He spent his remaining years at Zoo Atlanta and died from complications during a medical procedure in August 2012.〔http://www.zooatlanta.org/ivan〕
==Early life==
Ivan the gorilla was born circa 1962 in the jungle of what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo. Ivan and a female gorilla presumed to be his sister were purchased by the owners of the B&I shopping center in Tacoma, Washington in 1964 for promotional purposes. Six months after arriving in the United States the female gorilla, Burma, died of unknown reasons. Ivan was raised as a human child by Earl Irwin, a co-owner of the B&I shopping center, until in 1969 when Ivan became too large and dangerous to keep within a human household. Irwin ordered a 14'x14' concrete enclosure to be built for Ivan inside of the B&I with public viewing windows. Later, a small concrete outdoor area was added. Ivan lived in this larger 40'x40' enclosure for the next 27 years as the star attraction for the B&I. He had a small black-and-white television set which he seemed to watch often and was sometimes given paint and paper to his delight and the delight of the customers at the B&I. He was known to "sign" his finger-paintings with a thumbprint.〔http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Ivan-the-gorilla-dies-at-Atlanta-zoo-166894986.html〕 His enclosure at the B&I shopping center is still viewable to the public, though the windows are covered in newspaper articles about Ivan.〔http://www.weeklyvolcano.com/mudroom/features/2011/06/Remembering-Ivan-the-Gorilla-from-tacoma-B-and-I-circus-store/〕
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