Port Lympne silverback

does anyone know his name? he was in the bachelor group in Port Lympne (with Ambam and Mataki) in 2010. I think they have been moved to the Netherlands recently.

I think this is 'Boumi' He is one of the four full brothers- Boulas, Boumi, Timbou, and Oumbi.(all Bitam x Mouila). Oumbi and Boulas are at Twycross, while Timbou lives alone in one section of this circular cage(due to fighting with the others)

I think the five large males are still at Port Lympne as Rhenen have not built(or completed?) their enclosure yet.

That is Kush and the Four males in the other batchelor group at port lympne will be moving to the netherlands not these ones all though im not sure if all four males are going or just a couple

GB

I thought it was the five largest males that live in the circular age that were going to Holland.

Im not sure but i thought it was the four younger males from Howletts that were going

GB

I`m not sure any males will be going at all since from what I know, the construction of the the gorilla enclosure in Rhenen has still not even started. They had announced the arrival of 5 males for autum 2009... and nothing has happenend at all.

Yes, I had begun to wonder about that too. I always thought it was the oldest five that were originally intended to go to Rhenen, as in 2009 the younger group of 4 (from Kifu's group) was not even formed. I have always presumed these younger ones might be the group that go to Longleat next year, but from what you say perhaps it could be either (or neither!)?

Here's a photo from Flickr that mentions Boumi and there's fencing up:

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If you look a further in that photostream you will see that Rhenen are advertising them as The Big Five.
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Alan

The photos indicate very clearly which group it is- the five oldest. They are all mentioned by name and portrait in different pictures.

I presume that the other male group( originally from Kifu's group) will find themselves at Longleat.