An endangered Bornean orangutan baby has been welcomed into the world at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay in Florida. WORLD’S OLDEST KNOWN GORILLA TURNS 67 AT BERLIN ZOO The baby orangutan was delivered by cesarean section on Saturday, weighing just over three pounds, park officials said. The mother, Luna, is recuperating from surgery and will be reunited with the baby once …
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Berlin’s zoo is celebrating the 67th birthday of Fatou the gorilla, its oldest resident, who it believes is also the oldest gorilla in the world. NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM’S 500-POUND, 95-YEAR-OLD SEA TURTLE GETS CLEAN BILL OF HEALTH Fatou was born in 1957 and came to the zoo in what was then West Berlin in 1959. Ahead of her official birthday …
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The newest endangered baby gorilla at the London Zoo is more than six weeks old but doesn’t yet have a name. Zookeepers aren’t even sure if it’s a male or female because they haven’t been able to get close enough to examine it. A photo taken Monday by The Associated Press shows why: The gorilla’s mother, Effie, has the baby …
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