It’s a gorilla bromance.
Two big apes greeted each other like long-lost human brothers when they were reunited after three years of separation.
The gorillas, Kesho, 13, and Alf, 9, were separated when Kesho was shipped off to the London Zoo to be part of a breeding program there.
The duo were reunited in Longleat Safari Park in Wiltshire, England, last week. Staffers were stunned when the gorillas recognized each other immediately and embraced in an emotional bear hug.
“We weren’t entirely sure that the brothers would even know each other, but the moment they met, you could just see the recognition in their eyes,” Mark Tye, head gorilla keeper, told London’s Daily Mail.
“They were very animated, and there was a lot of rough-and-tumble, but not in an aggressive way. It is quite unusual to see that sort of childlike behavior in a silverback.”