Infant Gorilla Growing Up Thanks to Human Surrogate Moms

[Omaha Steve]

Dec 28, 2014, 6:59 PM ET By GILLIAN MOHNEY



This Sept. 21, 2014 photo shows Kamina, a Western Lowland gorilla at the Oklamhoma Zoo where she was born Aug. 16, 2014. Kamina was rejected by her mother and has been moved to the Cincinnati Zoo. Oklahoma City Zoo, Jennifer D'Agostino/AP Photo


http://abcnews.go.com/US/infant-gorilla-growing-human-surrogate-moms/story?id=27866726

An infant gorilla who had to be moved to a new home after two female gorillas showed no interest in raising her is growing into a great ape, thanks to a pair of humans.

Kamina has been tended by zoologists at the Cincinnati Zoo since her arrival earlier this year.

The zoologists tried to get two female gorillas in the zoo to tend to Kamina, but after repeated attempts, the adult gorillas still were not interested in Kamina.

So the humans took over. To keep the baby gorilla from becoming accustomed to people, they wear special gorilla suits when they are around Kamina.


Several videos:

FULL story at link.

[shenmue]

1. Yay!

Huzzah!

[Skittles]

2. AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

the poor little thing; sheesh, she is ADORABLE

[eppur_se_muova]

3. "they wear special gorilla suits when they are around Kamina" -- oh wow --

I hope they throw a party on 31 January !

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorilla_suit#National_Gorilla_Suit_Day

[WhiteAndNerdy]

4. Baby gorillas are so sweet.

I saw one shortly after its birth at a zoo once, years ago. It was probably about a month old. (I said "it" because I can't remember for sure whether it was male or female -- I think it was a boy, but it's been a long time.) Human babies don't move me, but I just wanted to kiss the li'l fella.