Before And After - Gorilla Baby Hasani With Mum Kala And Surrogate Mum Kera

Описание: A longer video from Gorilla mum Kala, her baby and surrogate mum Kera. As many of you know that are watching the Thursday gorilla series, Kala was unfortunatly unable to look after her little one. She was very young and the little one got quite frail. That's when Bristol Zoo made the decision to hand raise her baby. The baby was never far away and they always let the group smell the baby. The staff tried their hardest to reintroduce the baby to mum Kala, but unfortunately she didn't want to know. Kera showed some interest and the staff made the decision to try to integrate the baby which they called Hasani to Kera. This process of integration is still going on and I believe they are only together without supervision for a short while each day. I was lucky enough to see the two outdoors. I think the two have still got some way to go as I've seen some strange behaviour from Kera which I will show in the upcoming Thursday video series.
Kala is sitting by the door with her newborn baby. When she decides to move she puts the baby over her head on her back and the baby knows instinctively to hold on tight. Kala has a walkabout and afterwards goes inside with her baby on her arm. It's lunchtime and she's back out again and her baby is still on her arm. She eats her lunch and she pats her baby like she usually does. When she's done, the little one goes back on her back.
The second part of the video shows surrogate mum Kera with baby Hasani.
As you can see in this video, Hasani is doing great. He looks so different and definitely put on some much-needed weight. He's such a sweetheart and I'm sure he will be fine. I'm looking forward to the day when he can play with Juni ( Gorilla Touni's little boy) , as they are roughly the same age.
Holding on to Kera while she is walking on top of the climbing frame. He's having a good look around. She goes to the hut and there, baby Hasani has a play in the straw.

Bristol Zoo gorillas:
The first Gorilla arrived at Bristol zoo in 8th September 1930 named Alfred. The Zoo itself opened in July 11th 1836! The first gorilla birth was on the March 6th 1971.
Currently, there are 8 gorillas at the Bristol Zoo.
Starting off with Jock the Silverback, he was born on the May 31st 1983 at Zoo La Palmyre. He got moved to the Bristol Zoo on the 25.June 2003. His offspring are: Namoki, Komale, Kukena, Afia, Ayana, Hasani and Juni.
Kera was born on August 26th 2004 at the Parc Zoológic de Barcelona. She moved to the Bristol zoo on the 08.September.2008. Her offspring is Afia.
Afia was born by emergency cesarean section at Bristol Zoo on the 12th of February 2016 after her mother, Kera, showed symptoms of potentially life-threatening pre-eclampsia. She had to be hand-raised. Gorilla Romina took an interest in Afia when the keepers walked past her with Afia on their arm. So Afia was slowly introduced to Romina and in October started bonding with her surrogate mother. Kera did recover after being ill for a while but didn't recognize Afia as her daughter. Romina took over to raise her, but sadly they had to put her to sleep in Aug 2018 because she had an advanced large cancerous mass in her abdomen. Afia by then was part of the group and dad Jock and the other females looked after her.
Touni was born on the 12th of December 2007 at the La Vallée des Singes and moved to the Bristol Zoo on the 28.September 2015. Her daughter is Ayana who was born on the 22nd of April 2017.
On the 22 December 2020, Toni gave birth to the second baby gorilla for Bristol zoo that year during covid lockdown and he was named a combination of his Mother’s and Father's name, Juni.
Kala was born on the 11th of December 2010 in Hannover. She's the newest member of the group as she joined on the 16.October 2018. She was pregnant in Sep 2019, but sadly lost the baby. The cause of death is unknown. On the August 19th 2020 Kala gave birth to baby Hasani. Unfortunately she couldn’t feed him properly and is being hand-raised by Bristol Zoo staff members. In May 2021 Kera showed interest in Hasani and became the new surrogate mother of the little boy.
(updated June 2021)

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