Philadelphia Zoo has an adorable new arrival, a baby white-handed gibbon born to mom Phoenice and dad Mercury.
Philadelphia Zoo announced the birth of a white-headed gibbon, an endangered ape species native to Southeast Asia.
Zookeepers said the baby boy - named Eros after the asteroid that orbits Mars - was born just before the keeper staff arrived on Thursday. The baby was born to 35-year-old mom Phoenice and 34-year-old dad Mercury. Eros has two older siblings at the zoo, a 5-year-old brother, Polaris and a 2-year-old sister, Ophelia.
Phoenice and Mercury have six offspring in total. Their first child, Leo, is now at Columbus Zoo and Aquarium in Ohio and their other children, Aires and Orion, are at Point Defiance Zoo in Tacoma, Washington.“Philadelphia Zoo is proud to have such a strong history with breeding this endangered ape,” Andrew J. Baker Curator of Primates and Small Mammals Michael Stern said in a news release.
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