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An image supposedly showing a gorilla knitting itself a scarf was recirculated on social media around April Fools' Day in 2019: This image had already been online for several years by then. In April 2016, for example, it was posted on the website Top Crochet Patterns along with a fictional Breaking News story about a knitting gorilla named Penny who was resident at a national zoo: This is not a genuine photograph of a knitting gorilla, nor is this a genuine news story. And, to top it off, this gorilla's name is not Penny. The image of a gorilla knitting is a manipulated version of a photograph taken at the London Zoo in 2009. At the time, zookeepers were awaiting the arrival of a new gorilla, Yeboah, a 12-year-old male who was being transferred from a zoo in France. In order to prepare the three female inhabitants for the change, the zookeepers handed out photographic posters of their potential new mate. The original undoctored photograph showed a gorilla named Mjukuu, or Jookie, examining one of the posters. The image appeared in a 2009 article published by CNN entitled Girl gorillas go ape for French pinup hunk: Here's a comparison of the original photograph (left) and the doctored Knitting Gorilla image (right):
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