Kucheza is the third offspring born to the 28-year-old chimpanzee, according to the Fox Weather report. The post was accompanied with another video showing “a sweet moment between mom and son while he nurses”. The baby will be called Kucheza (koo-CHAY-zuh), which the post said means “play” in Swahili. Will a baby chimpanzee, if raised from birth by a human being, develop characteristics consistent with a human child No. Later on Thursday, the zoo announced the newborn’s name. Two days after a caesarean at Sedgwick County Zoo in Wichita Kan., a chimpanzee named Mahale embraced her baby for the first time on Nov. “If your not crying watching this something is wrong with U”, said one user, while another one said: “That is the sweetest thing ever!!!!” The heartwarming video showing the baby in his mother’s arma has people pouring out their heart in the comments section. The video has since been shared more than 9,000 times. After one year, the little child is carried. The baby makes contact with play partners, but the mother always stays very close to her baby.

After 6 to 12 months the baby starts to explore its neighbourhood more and more. Kitoko the chimpanzee is looking after her own baby at the Basel Zoo and adopted her sister Fifis. On Thursday, the zoo shared another video showing the reunion of the mother and child. The baby is carried backside down by the mother under her belly for the first month so that the baby can be breast-fed easily. A female chimpanzee has adopted her ill sisters newborn infant at a zoo in Switzerland. It said the baby was bottle-fed overnight due to low oxygen levels. Today he is doing extremely well and should be able to be reunited with mom very soon!” the zoo said in the post shared with a video showing the doctors on the job.Ī Fox Weather report said the doctors consulted with the zoo veterinarians on ape pregnancies for the past decade. A very special baby orangutan, whose birth could kickstart a new generation of the critically endangered species, has been shown off by his proud mother. “Baby had a bit of trouble getting enough oxygen at birth, so he is being treated in the Zoo’s Vet hospital by animal care staff. The post said the baby had troubled breathing at birth and was being treated at the zoo hospital. Dr Laura Whisler and Dr Janna Chibry of College Hill OB-GYN, along with the zoo’s veterinary team, performed the C-section, the zoo said in a post on Facebook and Instagram after the surgery.

The Sedgwick County Zoo in Wichita, the largest city in the US state of Kansas, announced on Tuesday that chimpanzee Mahale gave birth to a male baby on November 15 via C-section, but the newborn had to be kept away from the mother after birth due to some health complications.Īccording to local media reports, Mahale was water labouring all Tuesday morning, and the animal care team at the zoo decided to intervene surgically after noticing changes in her progress. A video of a chimpanzee mother’s reunion with her newborn two days after a cesarean section in a US zoo is winning hearts on the internet. David Attenborough observes the behaviour of young Chimpanzees, looking at how they interact with their elders in this clip shot in a forest on the Ivory Coa.

Newborn chimpanzee baby