Ivan The Gorilla And Ruby The Elephant

Ivan has spent most of his life in captivity.

Ivan the gorilla and ruby the elephant. The two of them were captured together as babies from the jungles of zaire in central africa. Directed by thea sharrock. In 1994 ivan came to live at zoo. This quote really sets the tone for disney s movie rendition of the one and only ivan the story of a silverback gorilla two elephants and some other animal friends who spent a good portion of their lives living in a shopping mall.

Not all humans are bad. 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. However things become difficult for ivan the gorilla when mack begins to train ruby to become a professional performer. 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.

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. 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 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.

Speaking of which the driving force of the one and only ivan is the young elephant named ruby whom the star gorilla is determined to find a more suitable home for following her recent addition. 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. Ivan ruby and the other animals are taken away to a zoo. Some of the details of this story are taken from real life for example ivan really did have a sister whose name was burma.

They can surprise you spoken by the wise old elephant named stella. An easygoing gorilla who has lived in the big top mall and video arcade for 27 years. 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 encourages ruby the elephant.