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Woman Is Surrogate Mom to Baby Gorillas
Topic Started: Dec 11 2006, 01:04 AM (77 Views)
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Woman Is Surrogate Mom to Baby Gorillas
By Associated Press

COLUMBUS, Ohio

Barb Jones spends her days crawling through piles of straw with a 15-pound baby gorilla on her back, sometimes climbing up on platforms inside the cage. It's all part of being a surrogate mother to baby gorillas, but that doesn't mean it's easy work for the 68-year-old Jones, who's been doing it for 26 years.

''Now, I need a little help scaling the ropes,'' she said. ''But I can't not do what they are going to do.''

Jones, a primate nursery keeper at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, works to break the cycle of primates born in captivity who never learn how to care for their offspring.

She teaches the young gorillas how to be babies while adult gorillas watch and learn their own roles. The hope is that the babies will grow up to be better caregivers that can look after their own young.

Jones' most recent project was Umande, who came to Columbus from a Colorado Springs zoo where his mother rejected him. Other females at the zoo didn't want him either. Last week, 40-year-old Lulu took over his care after weeks of Jones and other workers tending to him.

http://www.happynews.com/news/11132006/wom...by-gorillas.htm
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