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Gorilla Dancing in a Kiddie Pool refers to a viral video in which a western lowland gorilla is shown enthusiastically spinning around in a pool, which spawned numerous remixes with various pop songs playing in the background after it was uploaded to YouTube in late June 2017.

Origin

On June 20th, 2017, the Dallas Zoo uploaded a video titled "Breakdancing Gorilla Enjoys Pool Behind-the-Scenes" to YouTube, in which the 14-year-old western lowland gorilla Zola frantically spins around in a pool of water while thrashing about (shown below). Within one week, the video gathered upwards of 2.06 million views and 280 comments.

Spread

On June 22nd, 2017, Twitter user @BobHagh posted the video with the 1983 song "Maniac" by Michael Sembello playing in the background (shown below). Within four days, the tweet received upwards of 103,000 likes and 63,000 retweets.

The same day, YouTuber Stephane Lefort posted the video edited with the 1983 pop song "What a Feeling" by Irene Cara (shown below, left). On June 23rd, YouTuber merlstrom uploaded the video with the 1980 pop song "Fame" by Irene Cara playing in the background (shown below, right).

In the coming days, several news sites published articles about the viral video, including The Washington Post,^[1] New York Post^[2] and NY Mag.^[3]

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