A 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.


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.



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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 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

Ndakasi survived the massacre of her family in 2007, but the trauma of losing them coupled with a long period of rehabilitation meant she was too vulnerable to return to the wild.


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Sad but that is nature...

Buhari caused all this deaths everywhere, is a pity.
buhari should resign

Damn so emotional

Damn am so sad!!
That picture was freaking viral, it got me thinking they were humans in gorilla costumes!

D

Even after the post, some upcoming cannibals in this forum will still see it and wish that it would have been better it ended in their pots ...



RIP Ndakasi, its well with your soul

Rest on

icebird25:
Eyah. .are the going to bury it or they want to use it for pepper soup

Na everything be food for una eyes, anyone that can kill and eat a gorilla or any other primate are serious cannibals and people around them should be very careful and highly suspicious of them

writetopoker2:
Buhari caused all this deaths everywhere, is a pity.
buhari should resign

No mention my name again or else I will declare state of emergency

The gorilla's eyes in the picture below says a lot

Hmmmmm

This is an emotional story. Could be adapted into a movie.
I wonder why humans are so heartless, killing a mothering animal.

The moment the little gorilla was cringing to the lifeless mom

Humans!

What next, pepper soup.

Eyah

Eyah. .are the going to bury it or they want to use it for pepper soup

Very touching

icebird25:
Eyah. .are the going to bury it or they want to use it for pepper soup

So this one still no wan get sense?

Some Africans destroy while some rebuild

See as the gorilla resemble one Nairaland moderator wey dey do factory work for cocacola

The first pics sef ...

Birth certificate of the gorilla or....

Quite an emotional scene where they were trying to resuscitate the gorilla. Let me not ever tag Nigeria with this.

Shellsploit:
See as the gorilla resemble one Nairaland moderator wey dey do factory work for cocacola

Hian, for making this comment, l invoke my power and I will be banning your account for 500 years and you will do community service at Aso Rock for 9months and you will be entitled to eat only break fast at the Villa

This is quite an interesting read from an African country.

The animal received care from a country that cares about lives.

No! Not Nigeria!

icebird25:
Eyah. .are the going to bury it or they want to use it for pepper soup

Pepper soup keeee u Dia

starbuck:
Even after the post, some upcoming cannibals in this forum will still see it and wish that it would have been better it ended in their pots ...



RIP Ndakasi, its well with your soul

People who kill gorillas for food should be shot dead at sight. They are cannibals.