Sixty-year-old gorilla dies in Ohio

COLUMBUS, Ohio – An Ohio zoo says the country’s oldest known gorilla, and the first in the world to be born in a zoo, has died. Colo was 60. The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium said Tuesday that Colo died in her sleep, less than a month after her birthday. She surpassed the usual life expectancy of captive gorillas by two decades. Colo was born at the zoo on Dec. 22, 1956. She eventually became a mother of three, grandmother of 16, great-grandmother of 12 and great-great-grandmother of three.