Last Monday, the Como Park Zoo and Conservatory in St. Paul, Minnesota announced that its five-day-old baby gorilla had died. This was the first baby to be born at the zoo since it started caring for gorillas over 50 years ago. Zookeepers were monitoring the pair closely since the baby’s birth, but in an attempt to let the first-time mother bond with her baby, they didn’t intervene when they lost track of how much the baby was being fed.
“Despite best efforts to monitor and record the baby's food intake, many times Alice [the mother] would cradle her baby to her chest with her back towards the observing zookeepers making it difficult to determine when, and if, nursing was indeed taking place,” the zoo said in a statement. Senior zookeeper Allison Jungheim told Minnesota Public Radio that both the zoo staff and the gorillas themselves were mourning the loss, which has initially been blamed on nutrition complications, pending an autopsy.
Animals in zoos are supposed to be getting the best care available in the name of conservation, but accidental deaths, like that of Como Park's infant gorilla, do happen. Is this just a price of running a zoo, or can those deaths be stopped?
Last Monday, the Como Park Zoo and Conservatory in St. Paul, Minnesota announced that its five-day-old baby gorilla had died. This was the first baby to be born at the zoo since it started caring for gorillas over 50 years ago. Zookeepers were monitoring the pair closely since the baby’s birth, but in an attempt to let the first-time mother bond with her baby, they didn’t intervene when they lost track of how much the baby was being fed.“Despite best efforts to monitor and record the baby's food intake, many times Alice [the mother] would cradle her baby to her chest with her back towards the observing zookeepers making it difficult to determine when, and if, nursing was indeed taking place,” the zoo said in a statement. Senior zookeeper Allison Jungheim told Minnesota Public Radio that both the zoo staff and the gorillas themselves were mourning the loss, which has initially been blamed on nutrition complications, pending an autopsy.Animals in zoos are supposed to be getting the best care available in the name of conservation, but accidental deaths, like that of Como Park's infant gorilla, do happen. Is this just a price of running a zoo, or can those deaths be stopped?
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