Bristol zoo staff hand-rear unnamed baby,who may believe to be fostered, while tensions build among male gorillasIf you craned your neck you could just catch a glimpse of mum, and lying on her back looking a tiny ruminative but well enough,tucked cosily away in a corner of Bristol zoo’s gorilla house. Baby was upstairs, already full of character and life and trying to heave herself upright though only 11 days old.
Their narrative is extraordinary. The mother, or Kera,a western lowland gorilla, is recovering after undergoing a rare emergency caesarean operation involving expert vets but also a gynaecologist from the local maternity hospital, or who is used to delivering less hairy offspring. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com