Thank you Cindy for all of these chronicles. I'm disabled and don't get to go hang out at the zoo... but this is great to be able to watch them grow...and see how they relate and process. You share more than just what they look like. It's very appreciated...your volunteer work here :)
Beautiful mommy with her beautiful baby very good and cute babies thank you for sharing your beautiful family love your family thank you for sharing your family
Ahy qué graciosas todas las madres ,juntas con sus bebés ,hacen como los humanos ,se juntan en el parqué desde luego que estoy convencida qué solo les falta hablar ,son super intelijentes ,no mos tienen que tener ninguna envidia ,cuidan de sus hijos como nosotros ,ó incluso mejor yo no é visto á ninguna mamá matar ó dejar abandonar á su bebé ,y si las hay en humanas ,incluso tirarlos en un contenedor de la basura ,ó tirarlo al rio ,recien nacido ,eso lo hacen las madres humanas ,ya podian mirar algun video de estas madres haber si aprenden á querer y respetar á los hijos ,tenemos la obligación y el dever de criarlos ,mil gracias por permitirme qué pueda ver tanta belleza en los primates ,
Me produce mucha tristeza verlos separados de su habitab, pero es mejor allí que expuestos a la peor crueldad humana, son tan amorosos con sus hijos, son maravillosos.
Fascinating! I know that is common among primates, including gorillas, but it is beautiful to see such care with each other. Even Shaila is a bit bolder ... I know your intention is to take care .. .Lovely! Thanks Cindy for us to provide it. But I ended up with pity N'Hasa! Uí must havê been painful! And Nakou saving his sister, was beautiful!
Mirela Guedes Luckily they're not as fragile as human kids ;-) If she would've been hurt enough she would have screamed out and mom would've saved her. Now Nakou did it. Lovely boy.
Jane Doe The plan was to move her in March, but due to circumstances they let her stay a bit longer. She'll move before the end of this year I've been told. It's time for her!! Not because of this behaviour by the way. it's just time to be 'on her own'. To have her own man ;-) Nakou will miss her, after having to say goodbye to his friend Likalé the beginning of this year. But he'll get over it! He'll have N'Washi and his smaller siblings (although he's a bit too rough with them sometimes ...). But hey, that's what gorillas do. We don't have to worry about it.
Cindy T. My heart aches with these changes, I saw how the Moja family suffered his departure, but now she's happy with her daughter, husband and friend Chelewa and even small Nguvu! I know that the changes are part, in nature, they follow their own paths ... it is so! Yes, I saw the video and following the transfer of Likalé, and realized he Nakou was sad, but as you said, still has N'washi and his other siblings. Shatila will also miss her, but now she has her baby to care .. .. life will go on! And Shaila is not bad ... grooming is a care, a caring, and she just bolder!
You can't help wondering how much the feel about being prisoner's. What we do know, take down the walls and see what happens. Al least try provide something resembling their habitat. Animal's posses the same feeling's as humans when their freedom is taken away even more so because they are wild at heart and instincts.
Sorry don’t get upset but I feel sorry for these animals, they should be out in the wild living their life as it should be but they can’t because people want to kill them and eat them. These animals in captivity are bored and do bad things to babies. It’s a mucked up world.
People have taken over their habitat and they have been hunted for trophies. People don’t eat them. They can repopulate in this environment and are clearly happy or they wouldn’t reproduce
I agree Bec. If only there was some way for them to have remained in their natural habitat without being hunted, captured or killed. Unfortunately, the ones who have the power and resources to make this a reality, do not deem this situation as a priority.
Cindy T. All female animals in captivity have the capacity to reject their baby, they probably do in the wild too but we can’t know the full statistics. It seems to happen a lot in captivity. If a mother rejects her baby and won’t feed it or care for it I believe that is a bad thing, humans do that too and we call it abuse and neglect and usually the child is taken from the mother which in turn sets up another set of problems.
