- Born
- Died
- Bongo was born in August 1986 in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. He was an actor, known for George of the Jungle (1997), Bait (2000) and Rescuers: Stories of Courage: Two Families (1998). He died on October 11, 2001 in Clarington, Ontario, Canada.
- He was a resident of Clarington, Ontario, Canada's Bowmanville Zoo from 1988 to his death.
- His owner and trainer was Michael Hackenberger.
- He and Caesar were originally performers for the Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus. They would ride on the back of Belgian horses.
- He hid behind the trees and jumped out at Leslie Mann in Disney's George of the Jungle (1997). Charlie Sammut's two male African lions from Salinas, California's Monterey Zoo (Joseph and Caleb) performed the wrestling sequence with Sammut himself temporarily replacing Brendan Fraser. The lion stalking Leslie prior to Fraser swinging to her rescue was Caesar. This entire scene was filmed at a former hangar of Howard Hughes Airport in Playa Vista, California.
- He attacked Bowmanville Zoo's trainer Dave Salmoni in 1999.
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