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Birth in a natural environment: this baby gorilla is unique in the world!

2021-06-30T04:22:31.496Z


Pink notebook in the great apes and world premiere: a baby, born to two parents who were born in captivity, has just seen the


It is a world first for this animal species.

A baby gorilla, whose two parents were born in captivity, in Western Europe, has just been born in the wild in Africa, in the Batéké Plateaux National Park in Gabon.

Her mother's name is Mayombé and is well known in France since she was born in 2007 in the Beauval ZooParc in Saint-Aignan (Loir-et-Cher). In 2009, it was reintroduced into the natural environment in Gabon. And now, for the first time, she gives life. They say she is primiparous. The 15-year-old father, baptized Djongo, comes from the Port Lympne game reserve in the UK, in Kent. This handsome male was transferred to Gabon in 2013. The two great apes met two years ago on a lush island in the national park. A real thunderbolt !

“The meeting was extraordinary.

The male was super-soft with our female who is shy and fearful, ”says Delphine Delord, associate director of the Beauval ZooParc.

The two lovebirds have no direct contact with men.

"On the other hand, the rangers can continue to supplement food by boat and monitor that everything is going well," she explains.

" All hopes are allowed "

The baby was probably born on the night of June 13-14.

Impossible, for the moment, to know if it is a male or a female.

“No one can come near it,” she says.

The gorilla, who appears to be "in good health" has not yet been baptized.

The new family of primates is only visible via the images of the trap cameras (which are triggered when the animals pass).

According to the observations of the trainers of the British foundation Aspinall, which follows the reintroduction of these western lowland gorillas, Mayombe, "calm and confident" after a "first day of slight nervousness" holds her newborn "in a position perfect ". Her chest looks plump, "indicating that she has milk." For his part, Djongo begins to have the paternal fiber: as soon as Mayombé let him approach, the apprentice dad "observed his little one up close, even going so far as to touch him".

For the Beauval ZooParc, this happy news is "a huge victory". “This is the culmination of a conservation program. Today, we celebrate the hope for a better future for this critically endangered species, ”says Delphine Delord. For her, “all hopes are allowed. "" This birth proves that the repopulation of places where the species had disappeared is possible, from gorillas born in zoos! And that they are able to reproduce and raise their babies. "

Source: leparis

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