Doctors performed a rare emergency c-section to deliver baby gorilla Jameela, but her mother rejected her at birth.
The gorilla suit’s fur-like strands are designed to ‘develop her muscles and tone’ so baby Jameela can grip onto her future surrogate mother Zookeepers are dressing up as gorillas to care for a baby ape rejected by its birth after is premature birth. Staff at Fort Worth Zoo in Texas have been donning a ‘gorilla suit’ made of fur-like strands mimicking the mother’s fur since mum Sekani abandoned baby Jameela.
The zoo is currently training another female gorilla, called Gracie, to take on the role. A spokesperson for the zoo said: ‘The gorilla-like jacket is used in part to limit human-animal contact, but mainly so that Jameela can get used to holding on to “fur” while moving around. ‘Baby gorillas depend on their mothers for locomotion for the first year or two of their lives.
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