Kala, 9, gave birth 11 months after she lost her first baby after an emergency caesarean. Mother and baby are doing well.
A baby gorilla has been born at Bristol Zoo - a year after its mother, Kala, lost her first born.
The tiny western lowland gorilla arrived in the early hours of Wednesday morning in the zoo's Gorilla House. Bristol Zoo said in a tweet it was"SO happy" when keepers arrived to find the little gorilla nestling in the arms of its mother Kala.Mother and baby are"doing well", the zoo said. Kala, 9, who arrived from Germany in 2018, gave birth naturally with the baby's father, Jock, nearby.In September last year, Kala lost her first baby after undergoing an emergency caesarean.
Lynsey Bugg, the zoo's curator of mammals, said:"We knew we were having a baby gorilla due and we've been on baby watch for a little while.
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