National Zoo Welcomes Baby Gorilla
Gorilla born over weekend
Monday, Jan 12, 2009 | Updated 5:00 PM EST
Pepper Watkins/National Zoo
On Jan. 10, a baby western lowland gorilla was born at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo. Staff estimate the baby was born at approximately 1:45 p.m. to 26-year-old female Mandara and 16-year-old Baraka.
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WASHINGTON -- A new baby is hogging the attention at the National Zoo.
A western lowland gorilla was born to 26-year-old Mandara over the weekend. Baraka, 16, fathered the gorilla.
The species is critically endangered due to poaching and habitat loss and fragmentation.
It was the seventh successful gorilla birth for the zoo since 1991 and the sixth offspring for Mandala.
It is unknown yet if the baby is male or female, but the zoo might hold a contest to name the primate.
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