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Lang, E.M., "Goma, the gorilla baby", Doubleday 1963.

Lang, E.M., "Jambo, first gorilla to be raised by its mother in captivity", National Geographic, March 1964 125: 446–53.

Jambo - The Gentle Giant, Green Umbrella, 2005.

Jambo: A Gorilla's Story, Richard Johnstone-Scott, Michael O'Mara Books (1995) ISBN 1-85479-701-8.

The publicity on major news channels and newspapers helped ease public fears about the potentially violent nature of gorillas. Most of the incident was recorded on home video, and extensively photographed by zoo visitors. A paramedic and two keepers rescued the boy. When the boy regained consciousness and started to cry, Jambo and the other gorillas retreated in panic, and the silverback led them into a small hut in the corner of their pen. He later stroked the unconscious boy's back. Jambo stood guard over the boy when he was unconscious, placing himself between the boy and other gorillas in what ethologists analyze as a protective gesture.

On 31 August 1986, five-year-old Levan Merritt fell into the gorilla enclosure and lost consciousness.

He was moved to Jersey Zoo on 27 April 1972. Jambo had seven siblings and 20 offspring by five different mates, including three stillbirths. Jambo also fathered a daughter while still at Zoo Basel by an unrelated female. Before Jambo was transferred to Jersey Zoo, Jambo and Goma had a son named Tamtam, who was born at Zoo Basel on, and died at Wuppertal Zoo on 34 July 2009. Jambo's older sister Goma, born on 23 September 1959 in Basel, was the first gorilla born in Europe and lived in the Zoo Basel until her death in 2018. She was the first gorilla born in captivity as well as the first gorilla in captivity to be raised by her own mother. The two which the Columbus Zoo kept, Baron Macombo and Millie Christina, became the parents of Colo, the first gorilla born in a zoo, in Columbus on 22 December 1956. The three were sold to the Columbus Zoo for $10,000. Stephi was captured in 1950 by Columbus resident and gorilla hunter Bill Said, with two other baby gorillas, in French Equatorial Africa. Stephi was acquired from the Columbus Zoo in Ohio.

The gorilla was born on 17 April 1961, in Zoo Basel, Basel, Switzerland, to mother Achilla and father Stephi.