Bobo the Gorilla here, 1951.
Bobo was born in 1951 and acquired by the Lowman family soon afterward, he came home to Anacortes in December 1951. It is interesting to note that Bill Lowman's grandfather, acquired a monkey c.1905 and brought it to Anacortes: perhaps that early experience predisposed the Lowmans to taking on a gorilla…
[…In] December 1953 the Lowmans gave Bobo to the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle where he lived until his death on February 22, 1968
