Baby Chimpazee at the North Carolina Zoo

Early this month, North Carolina Zoo staff made the tough decision to take their new baby chimp in for hand-rearing after it became clear that the baby's first-time mother could not adequately care for her. The baby is healthy and eating well and weighs 3 lbs. 14 oz. She is cared for by staff 24 hours a day and is carried by them most of the time except for brief periods in an incubator. The goal is to get the infant back into the chimpanzee group as soon as possible. She is shown to the chimpanzee group each day for visual socialization.

Video by Rod Hackney and copyright North Carolina Zoo. See more at http://www.ZooBorns.com

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• baby
• chimpanzee
• chimp
• north carolina zoo
• eating
• nursing
• orphan
• nori
• hand raised

[RangerRenna]

How beautiful!

[ZooVisitorMM]

Imagine if this baby chimpanzee had been living in the wild ...

And this kind of bonding between humans and non-human animals is always a wonderful experience from which humans can learn a lot.

[elsiebea]

Wow. Sure looks like the human doing the feeding has never had kids before. Getting more on than in. Should have gotten an infant seat, put him/her in it and strapped the seat belt, and then her hands would be free to feed it while still being able to fend off the little hands and keep the thumb out of the mouth.

But we can't do that, that would make too much sense and be too easy. I doubt that she's doing much better than mama was at taking care of him/her here.

[rachelcapt225]

Kill the little fucker! It just going to be another grown mean ass, killer, bug infested, shit eating, noise making, breeding with anyone ape. As for the asshole who condemned zoo breeding, go fuck yourself. The zoos can breed better animals than your mother did. Look in the mirror, another failed abortion.

[noirrosa]

wouldn,t be easier to give him a bottle? he is so cute

[mlbdrumsyahoo]

Looks like he is still trying to suckle.

[ForeverCrystals450]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[MsVoolfy]

All these preparations and then she swipes her germ laden hair with her "sterile" gloves...lolol UGH

[chisciotte1]

SWEET AND ADORABLE!!!!!! AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

[RaeDreamer]

she should of put him/her in a high chair :-D

[Wheelstar72]

sweet chimp will it be rejoining t group when its older??

[hannah2640]

wow i would love to hold one of them...so cute! :D