{"id":7154,"date":"2011-02-01T19:46:52","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T00:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=7154"},"modified":"2011-02-01T19:46:52","modified_gmt":"2011-02-02T00:46:52","slug":"ambam-the-walking-gorilla-surprises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=7154","title":{"rendered":"Ambam: The Walking Gorilla Surprises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=7154\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7005\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"gorilla header\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/gorilla-header.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>By Geno McGahee<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When I saw Ambam, I would have bet that he was in his 40s, but he is 21, a western lowland Gorilla that has captured the imagination of the world and the hearts of many. Ambam supporters contacted RSR and stated that: \u201cAmbam is a pleasure and watching him walk around and enjoy life is what it\u2019s all about.\u201d I could not have said it better.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It has been made clear by many experts that Ambam\u2019s decision to \u201cwalk like a human\u201d is nothing new and all apes are capable of doing the same thing. Ambam has just made the decision to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Tourists come to see Ambam daily and he enjoys the celebrity, grabbing the food that they toss at him and, according to some, \u201cgiving a smile\u201d in return. Ambam\u2019s youtube video, displaying his amazing ability to walk without dragging his knuckles has been viewed over 500,000 times. People have gone ape for Ambam.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/upright-gorilla3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7006 aligncenter\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"upright gorilla3\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/upright-gorilla3-193x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"193\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?page_id=1371\">Advertise Now On RSR<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.authorhouse.com\/BookStore\/ItemDetail.aspx?bookid=13198\">Purchase Boxing Interviews Of A Lifetime<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Family-Secret-Forris-Day-Jr\/dp\/B004GLZ4YG\/ref=pd_rhf_p_t_1\">Pre-Order the Horror Thriller FAMILY SECRET Now!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Geno McGahee When I saw Ambam, I would have bet that he was in his 40s, but he is 21, a western lowland Gorilla that has captured the imagination of the world and the hearts of many. Ambam supporters contacted RSR and stated that: \u201cAmbam is a pleasure and watching him walk around and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2449,2396,2451,2450],"class_list":["post-7154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-485-pound-ape","tag-ambam","tag-ape-celebrity","tag-walking-gorilla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}