{"id":22500,"date":"2020-07-07T19:22:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T16:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/endangered-gorilla-in-new-orleans-expecting-first-baby\/"},"modified":"2020-07-07T19:22:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T16:22:00","slug":"endangered-gorilla-in-new-orleans-expecting-first-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/endangered-gorilla-in-new-orleans-expecting-first-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"#Endangered gorilla in New Orleans expecting first baby"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Endangered gorilla in New Orleans expecting first baby<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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July 7, 2020 |<\/span> 12:22pm <\/p>\n

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\"Tumani,<\/img>
\n Tumani, a 13-year old critically endangered western lowland gorilla that is expecting to give birth later this summer, eats in her enclosure at the Audubon Nature Institute in New Orleans.<\/span>
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\n NEW ORLEANS \u2014 One of the critically endangered gorillas in the New Orleans\u2019 zoo is expecting her first baby and already is being trained with a \u201cdoll\u201d to hold her future offspring.<\/p>\n

Thirteen-year-old Tumani\u2019s training \u201cdoll\u201d doesn\u2019t look anything like a gorilla because a stuffed toy could easily be torn apart, the Audubon Zoo\u2019s chief veterinarian, Dr. Robert McLean, said Monday. Instead, a rugged section of canvas firehose tubing has been woven roughly to the proportions and weight of a 4-pound (1.8-kilogram) newborn gorilla.<\/p>\n

\u201cI haven\u2019t seen it myself, McLean said. \u201dApp<\/a>arently it\u2019s pretty ugly but it does the job.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tumani, father Okpara and females Alafia and Praline are western lowland gorillas. Although there were an estimated 362,000 in the wild in 2016, their numbers were falling about 2.7 percent a year, making them critically endangered, according to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. At that rate, their numbers could plummet more than 80 percent by 2082. Habitat loss, disease \u2014 including the Ebola virus \u2014 and illegal hunting for meat are among reasons their population is falling so fast.<\/p>\n

About 350 of the gorillas are in facilities accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums. The last gorilla born at the Audubon Zoo was Praline, now 24.<\/p>\n

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Tumani\u2019s pregnancy \u201cis a huge deal and we want to share that news<\/a> with the public. It seems to be going well,\u201d McLean said.<\/p>\n

The due date is anywhere between mid-July and Aug. 20, based on her mating with Okpara, a 26-year-old silverback who came to New Orleans in 2017 from the Franklin Park Zoo in Boston. Veterinarians don\u2019t know the baby\u2019s sex.<\/p>\n

The 160-pound (72-kilogram) expectant mother is receiving twice monthly ultrasounds and has undergone training on how to pick up the doll, including how to hold it to her chest where a baby gorilla could nurse.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t want the baby by itself. We want it with the mother at all times,\u201d McLean explained. \u201cIf the baby\u2019s on the ground, we want to be able to say, \u2019Hey, pick it up.\u201d<\/p>\n

She also has been taught not to play with a baby bottle and its foot-long (30-centimeter) flexible hose leading to the nipple, which could be used if Tumani has a problem lactating or nursing.<\/p>\n

Alafia, who has successfully raised a baby, also has been trained to do all the same things just in case she has to step in as the infant\u2019s foster mother.<\/p>\n

McLean said both Alafia\u2019s experience at Seattle\u2019s Woodland Park Zoo and the fact that Tumani saw younger brothers and sisters raised at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where she lived until 2017, are in favor of successful motherhood.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut we still don\u2019t know how they\u2019ll respond,\u201d he said.\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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