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  • Baby Gorilla Reunited with Mother Following Veterinary Care

    REUNITED AND IT FEELS SO GOOD!

    An adorable baby gorilla at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park was physically introduced to her mother Monday following medical treatment.

    The 12-day-old baby was born to her mother Imani on March 12 via emergency cesarean section.

    Zoo staff immediately noticed, however, that the baby was having respiratory issues and needed to be admitted for 24-hour veterinary care.

    Associate Director of Veterinary Services Nadine Lamberski said that the medical staff determined it was pneumonia.

    “We’ve been working with the baby all weekend, and after having several days of experience treating her, it’s pretty obvious that we’ve been dealing with pneumonia,”  Lamberski previously told The Washington Post.

    Lamberski told the Associated Press that the baby gorilla recovered fairly well following surgery for a collapsed lung, so the zoo decided to take her back to her mother.

    Located below is the raw footage of the reunion: 

    In the video you can see one of the zookeepers place the baby down in her mother’s cage.

    The 18-year-old mother walks over to her new born and immediately starts to place straw around her in what seems to be an attempt to keep her baby girl warm. 

    Photographers captured precious bonding moments between the two, especially those that showed the baby lying on her mother’s chest.

    After three hours, the gorilla became acquainted with the little one and started to breastfed her baby for the very first time.

    Zoo officials say that the new mom has been holding and carrying her baby since their reunion.

    The San Diego Zoo plans to continuously monitor the baby gorilla’s health as well as make sure she is receiving enough nutrition.

    It’s pretty mind blowing to see how a gorilla interacts with their baby. And, quite frankly, it’s not too different from how human mothers care for their young.

    This remarkable post on Twitter illustrates just how similar baby humans and baby gorillas are in nature:

    Image via YouTube

  • Bruno Mars Gets ‘Unorthodox’ in New ‘Gorilla’ Video

    It’s Bruno Mars like you’ve never seen him before! Of course, everyone is familiar with the mellow pop sounds of the Grammy award-winning balladeer. But, this time, he’s back with his sexually-charged exotic record, “Gorilla,” and the video leaves little to nothing to the imagination. One word can sum up the video – hot!

    The record was a collaborative work written and created by Mars’ production team the Smeezingtons, Emily Haynie, 808s and Heartbreaks’ producer, Jeff Bhasker, and musician Mark Ronson. Its a sexy soft rock record that compares passionate sex to mating like wild animals, hence the gorilla on the single’s cover art.
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    “Gorilla” is the fourth single release from Mars’ latest album, “Unorthodox Jukebox,’ which was released on Dec. 7 of last year. According to Neilsen SoundScan, the album was certified platinum by the RIAA after only 12 weeks on the market, selling 1.4 million in the US and over 3 million worldwide.
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    On Sunday, Mars hit up Twitter Instagram with a 15-second teaser of his new video, “Gorilla.” The short clip alone spoke volumes that promised the video would be a fan-favorite.

    Then, Mars took to Twitter again on yesterday to announce the world premiere of the full “Gorilla” video to his 17 million followers.

    Mars pushes the envelop of promiscuity throughout the exhilarating 6-minute video with actress and model, Freida Pinto. Pinto portrays Isabella who is a jaw-dropping exotic dancer in a strip club South of the Border. Provocatively captivating, Pinto sends the video up in flames with erotic dances moves, attacking the stripper pole like you’ve never seen her before. Mars is captured performing on stage admiring while Pinto as she dances. The heated chemistry between Mars’ and Pinto is undeniable. The full video was posted on Mars’ Facebook page.

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    Image via Twitter | Bruno Mars

     

  • Media Falsely Reports Gorilla for Being Sexist

    Meet Patrick, a 23-year-old single male Texan residing in Dallas, who is also a 430-pound Western lowland gorilla that was recently mistaken for hating women (gorilla women in particular). You see, a lot of media reports (MailOnline, E!, Fox News, ABC) picked up on the sensationalism that Patrick was a sexist ape, when really, he just prefers to be alone, indifferent to other gorillas. The media went bananas with the story (a sexist gorilla?), but The Dallas Zoo’s Official Facebook page said otherwise:

    Yes, Patrick will be moving out of his humble abode at Dallas Zoo where he’s been living for 18 years. The decision for his move had been years in the making, with “gorilla experts” all over the United States advising on the best  choice of action for Patrick. He will be sent over to the Riverbanks Zoo and Gardens in Columbia, South Carolina.

    It also started back in April 13th, 1990 at the Bronx Zoo in New York, where little baby Patrick was born and abandoned by his mama. From there, he was transferred to the Toronto Zoo, where he was hand-raised with another male ape companion around the same age. As little innocent and motherless Patrick grew, he became less and less social with other apes.

    According to the Patrick’s Departure Q&A on the Dallas Zoo Facebook page, Patrick is leaving Dallas “due to maternal neglect” and because he was “hand raised”.

    “He hasn’t socialized well with gorillas and prefers his own company. We’ve tried for years to create social relationships for Patrick, with little success. Two separate female groups were introduced to him, but he was indifferent and the relationships never progressed to a stable social grouping. At Riverbanks, he will continue to live alone, but in close proximity to other gorillas.”

    The move is not meant to punish Patrick, but instead, is the best choice of action that will serve to benefit him and his solitary life style.  “It’s not punitive in any way.”

    The Dallas Zoo’s Facebook page announced on September 23rd that Patrick will have a going away party on September 28th through 29th. The celebration is titled “We’ll Miss Ya, Patrick!”, and zoo admission is only $5 for everyone three and older. There will be mini cupcakes.

    (Photos courtesy of The Dallas Zoo’s Facebook page)

  • Misundertood Gorilla Being Booted From Dallas Zoo

    Patrick, a 23-year-old Western lowland gorilla, is being kicked out of the Dallas Zoo for anti-social behavior. The 430-pound silverback bachelor, known for his geniality while among visitors and zoo staff, has shown little interest in forming any meaningful bonds with his gorilla contemporaries, during his 18-year stint in Dallas. According to a statement issued by Dallas Zoo staff, Patrick will be transferred to the Riverbanks Zoo and Garden in Columbia, S.C., where he’ll be able to enjoy more solitude.

    Head Dallas Zoo veterinarian Dr. Lynn Kramer states, “It’s become clear that he prefers to live a solitary life. This move will allow Patrick to continue to thrive while creating an opportunity for our four remaining males to form a cohesive bachelor group.”

    The western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) is a subspecies of the “plain” western gorilla (Gorilla gorilla) that lives in forests and lowland swamps in central Africa, in countries including Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon. Western lowland gorillas are the ones usually seen in zoos. Gorillas live in family groups consisting of one dominant male silverback, 5 to 7 adult females, some children and adolescents, and at times a few non-dominant males. Gorillas reproduce slowly – roughly one baby gorilla every 5 years. Patrick got the boot mainly because he showed little interest in the lady gorillas, and his departure would give the remaining 4 males a chance to form a tighter bachelor posse.

    Still, Patrick is popular with the patrons of the zoo, and is very intelligent and adept at using hand tools, according to Dr. Kramer. A two-day going away party is scheduled at the Dallas Zoo over the coming weekend, though no set transfer date has been established. Upon Patrick’s departure, six gorillas will be left at the zoo.

    In other gorilla news, the recently-deceased “Snowflake” from Barcelona has been found to have had albinism due to his parents being uncle and niece.

    Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

  • Gorilla Taunting Leads To Animal’s Retaliation

    A gorilla at the Dallas Zoo recently got some revenge on a group of nasty kids who were taunting him and calling him ugly.

    With an annoyed facial expression so close to that of a human who’s been bullied too many times, the gorilla patiently waited for the right moment and then jumped against the glass, scaring the kids and making them scream before turning around to show them his backside.

    Video of the incident has gone viral, with many viewers upset that the kids were allowed to taunt the animal that way, even if they were divided by a glass barrier.

    “Where were the kids? All I saw was a gorilla on one side and monkeys on the other,” wrote one YouTube commenter.

    Check out the video below and see for yourself.

  • Albino Gorilla The Result Of Uncle, Niece Mating

    An albino gorilla who lived for 40 years at a Barcelona zoo is the subject of a new study that traced his origins, and the results are surprising.

    Snowflake was famous up until his death in 2003 from skin cancer because of his extraordinary coloring; after being born in the wild, he was captured by Equatorial Guinea villagers and was the only known albino gorilla in the world. He was given the Spanish name Copito de Nieve, and the English name Snowflake. Studies were done to try and find what caused his rare condition, but none ever came close to the findings that Spanish researchers say they have discovered. After extensive gene sequencing, they isolated the reported cause: Snowflake was the offspring of an uncle and a niece who mated somewhere down the line.

    The gene was found after careful searching through DNA, which was taken from a frozen blood sample of Snowflake’s. The DNA showed that 12% of his mother and father’s genes matched.

    Some scientists believe that factors like habitat loss and reduced populations contribute to animal inbreeding.

    “If we are reducing much more the space that they have now, it is more likely that they will be forced to stay in the group and that will increase the consanguinity,” (shared blood), Tomas Marques-Bonet, who led the study, said.

    You can watch video of Snowflake here.

    Image: Barcelona Zoo