Disney: Gino, an original Animal Kingdom inhabitant, has died

September 17, 2025

Gino, a western lowland gorilla and longtime resident of Disney’s Animal Kingdom theme park, has died, Walt Disney World announced Wednesday. He was 44.

“For nearly 30 years, Gino touched countless lives at Disney’s Animal Kingdom with playful spirit, gentle humor and steady presence as a devoted father and troop leader,” Disney World posted on social media accounts.

He was an original inhabitant of Animal Kingdom, which opened in 1998. And, at 400 pounds, became an imposing presence on the park’s Gorilla Falls Exploration Trail. He occasionally would stand and dramatically clap his chest.

“Everybody takes notice — his family, our guests, our cast and it’s really quite spectacular,” Dr. Scott Terrell, director of animal and science operations at Walt Disney Co., told the Orlando Sentinel in 2021. “It’s a natural gorilla behavior. He’s just very good at it.”

Gino, the oldest animal of the Animal Kingdom troop, fathered 14 offspring, some of which have lived at the park. He was part of a Disney-developed program where animals helped with their own medical care by posing in ways that they could be examined without being sedated. That included backstage sonograms and blood-pressure checks.

He also appeared in an episode of the Disney+ program “The Magic of Disney’s Animal Kingdom.”

“He’s fostered a personal connection with the millions who have encountered him, instilling an affinity for gorillas that has helped inspire the conservationists, veterinarians, and animal keepers of today and tomorrow,” Terrell wrote for the Association of Zoos & Aquariums’ website in 2022.

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