""Mom has definitely got a nice maternal hold and is very protective of the baby,""
""Angela is starting to get a little bit more curious. She's coming up very gently, mom has been letting her get closer and do sweet little kisses.""
Each morning keepers distribute food, medicine and habitat-appropriate bedding for the zoo's great apes. Over four months the zoo recorded several births: a male gorilla born Nov. 22 to 31-year-old N'djia and 38-year-old silverback Kelly, joining sister Angela (born 2020); two chimpanzee births in August (Yoshi's female and Vindi's female); a male chimpanzee born in November to experienced mother Zoe; and an October orangutan birth to Kalim and Isim, raising Bornean orangutan numbers to seven. Mothers display protective and nurturing behaviors, and keepers and visitors closely observe neonatal interactions.
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