UNITE works in partnership with schools that are within a 5-km radius of Kibale National Park to improve teaching methods, to enable teachers to incorporate more environmental topics into the classroom, and to help the local community find ways to reduce their impact on the neighboring National Park. The Zoo’s program, UNITE for the Environment, has been operating for more than 15 years. The North Carolina Zoo is actively involved in wild chimpanzee conservation in Uganda’s Kibale National Park, which boasts the largest chimpanzee population in East Africa. With the new baby, the Zoo’s troop now consists of 15 chimpanzees – 9 females –Gerre & baby Amy, Ebi, Gari, Genie, Gigi, Nori, Ruby and Tammy, and six males – new baby boy Obi, Gus, Kendall, Jonathan, Lance and Sokoto.Ĭhimpanzees are listed as endangered in the wild. The adult male chimpanzees in this troop are outstanding in that they are known for being very gentle and playful with younger chimps. The last birth at the Zoo, a male named Gus, was on May 14, 2014. Here are some fun baby names from the animal. Both Gerre and Genie came to the North Carolina Zoo from the Dallas Zoo on November 14, 2012.Īccording to Curator Jennifer Ireland, the troop is very curious about the young baby. For example, baby cats are called kittens and baby birds are called chicks. ![]() She is the mother of Genie, who was born on August 25, 2011, at the Dallas Zoo. Gerre (zha’-ree) who is around 20 years old, is an experienced mother and very protective of her young. Both mother and baby are doing very well. 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. We are excited to announce that on Monday, Maa healthy baby boy was born to Gerre. 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. Obi: word of Nigerian origin “one who charms others heart Kojo: word from Ghana meaning “born on Monday” The names chosen from were all of African origin and the public voted to decide the chimpanzee baby's name.Īyo (Eye-oh): word of the Yoruba people for “full of joy or happiness” Obi! Obi is a Nigerian word that means "one who charms" or "heart". Shearer says the zoo team isn’t focusing on the name at all yet, as they have more important things to attend to, like, say, the health and well-being of a newly-expanded gorilla family.And our new baby boy chimp's name.chosen by the public is. It looks like your monstrous dreams of Gorilla McGorillaFace are out the window as well. “What we are having is a voting opportunity for the community once we have better determined the gender of the baby and have worked internally with the team that has cared for the pregnancy and birth.” She was deeply wounded, dehydrated, undernourished, and exhausted. She gave birth via emergency C-section after. “We never announced we were having a naming contest,” the zoo’s Chief Marketing Officer Amy Shearer told CNN. On 19th September 2017, our team rescued an infant female chimpanzee of 1.5 years old. Nurses at Sedgwick County zoo in Kansas captured this video showing the moment a chimpanzee, Mahale, saw her baby, Kucheza, after two days. They’re not taking open name suggestions and they don’t know why anyone thought that in the first place. The Philadelphia Zoo will be having none of that, please and thank you. ![]() ![]() I am 100% sure Harambe will win, and 100% sure that the baby won't be named that- Fidel Casstro August 31, 2016 Theres gonna be a gorilla naming contest at the Philly Zoo. Harambe has been reborn! Praise the heavens!- Javi Moreno □□□□ August 31, 2016 Of course, when the Philadelphia Zoo announced the birth of the same type of gorilla, Harambe enthusiasts took the news to be positively messianic. The tiny month-old can be seen being carried and cradled by her mom inside the Zoo’s Chimpanzee Forest habitat. Lola, a female chimpanzee, was born to Bunny on July 5, 2019. Since then, the silverback gorilla has lived on in dark-humored memes so potent that the zoo had to close down its social media accounts to stop the onslaught of Harambe-related abuse. BALTIMORE, MD Introducing Lola The Maryland Zoo’s newest chimpanzee was officially named today. It’s been months since Harambe shuffled off this mortal coil after an unfortunate and widely discussed incident at the Cincinnati Zoo. The Philadelphia Zoo knows what you’re thinking, and no, they are not letting you name their precious little baby Harambe. Aww, will you look at that? Philadelphia Zoo
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