Accented on the first syllable, Zahra means beautiful flower in Swahili, the zoo said.
Swahili is an African language; western lowland gorillas are native to Africa, living in rainforests where their numbers are said to be in decline.
The naming of Zahra may prompt recollection of the question asked in William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet”: “What’s in a name?” In the play, the question is asked in a context that suggests names are not everything and don’t mean that much. The famous movie in which a powerful and fearsome primate clung to the top of the Empire State Building was not called merely “Gorilla,” but rather “King Kong.”
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