Some animals at the Brookfield Zoo in Illinois got Halloween treats early this week. Gorillas and bears wasted no time chowing down on the pumpkins yesterday.
The tigers tossed them around like soccer balls and the polar bears just buried their noses in them.
Video provided by the Brookfield Zoo.
A lowland gorilla, named Josephine, now has the gift of sight. She underwent a state-of-the-art surgery Friday at Miami’s Metrozoo to remove severe cataracts and implant new lenses in each of her eyes. Prior to the surgery, she was nearly blind.
Video provided by: WSVN.
A traumatized gorilla who carried around her dead baby’s body for several days in a German zoo last year, has given birth again — and this time her offspring is healthy. 12-year-old Gana’s very public mourning for her last child gained widespread attention last year. The baby gorilla, Claudio, died when he was three months old of a severe intestinal infection.
Gana’s new daughter was born early on Sunday, said a spokesperson for the Allwetter Zoo in Muenster.
Video provided by RTL.
Zookeepers have been taking care of this special new arrival at the San Diego Zoo and he made his public debut over the weekend.
Frankie is a baby Western Lowland Gorilla, and was born last September.
It was Frankie’s aunt, not his mother, that brought him outside into the gorilla habitat. Zookeepers said gorillas are raised by the whole community not just their mothers.
Frankie is still being bottle fed by zookeepers three times a day. He will only be allowed in the outside habitat three days a week for right now.
A baby boy gorilla, born Monday morning, is not receiving any love from his mother. “Monifa,” clearly not ready for motherhood, left the baby unattended — so a veterinary team is stepping in to care for the newborn.
The San Francisco Zoo has not yet named the little one. The zoo says this is the first gorilla born there in ten years.
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