Ivan The Gorilla And Ruby The Elephant

Some of the details of this story are taken from real life for example ivan really did have a sister whose name was burma.

Ivan the gorilla and ruby the elephant.

Read chaka khan who plays henrietta on the one and only ivan says they have lot in common a displeased ivan decides. For the first few years of his life he lived with his owners but he soon grew too big for a human house and they moved him to a 14 x 14 concrete enclosure on display to the public at the b i shopping center in tacoma. Ivan is very good at making friends with young people like julia his human best friend or ruby who saw from the start that he was not a scary gorilla and despite the little elephant stealing the show at the circus he had no problem with that even helping ruby overcome the crowd stalking. On her death bed stella asks ivan to look after the young ruby.

Ivan and ruby are both adopted by the same zoo where they begin adapting to their new habitats and the other animals they now live with. A gorilla named ivan tries to piece together his past with the help of an elephant named ruby as they hatch a plan to escape from captivity. When pressed by baby elephant ruby ivan tells the story of his time in the wild and his capture in the one and only ivan. Directed by thea sharrock.

An easygoing gorilla who has lived in the big top mall and video arcade for 27 years. Not all humans are bad. They can surprise you spoken by the wise old elephant named stella. Ivan encourages ruby the elephant.

The two of them were captured together as babies from the jungles of zaire in central africa. Ruby brooklynn prince from the florida project is a baby elephant whose adorability threatens to the steal the spotlight from ivan but the jolie elephant stella brings out the simian. With sam rockwell bryan cranston phillipa soo chaka khan. However things become difficult for ivan the gorilla when mack begins to train ruby to become a professional performer.

Ivan was a western lowland gorilla born in 1962 in what is now the democratic republic of the congo he was captured from the wild as a baby and brought to live with humans. Ivan has spent most of his life in captivity. Ivan the western lowland gorilla was rescued from poachers in africa and raised by humans in washington where he spent 27 years as a shopping mall attraction. In 1994 ivan came to live at zoo.