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Yeah, yeah. We got the baby like a baby. She's accepted the child and she's proceeding to raise. It has this unusual for the mother to accept the child right away. Yes, it is. And past births in zoos

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in captivity. It has been unusual for mothers to accept the youngsters. It's been done on occasion. But now this will be the second time that has done here at san Francisco zoo. What about the father? What has been his reaction since the birth? Well, of course

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there's obviously a lot of excitement going on around the zoo and all of the gorillas are keenly interested in what's going on inside. I know there's a the mother actually one of the other females actually watched the birth. She was actually looking through the bars about

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the time that it came. Father could see it too from across his room is across the way, but it's an open area so he could actually watch that. And they've been very curious. They've come up to the door, they've actually looked inside and they spent quite

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a bit of time hanging around the quarters looking on Very much has been made of the fact that this is around the 50th birth. What makes this so significant? Well, I think it's very important. And also it shows the progress that Zoos are animal husbandry people.

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Zoo husbandry people have made and say the last 10 years the last decade and management of these animals. I think it's a good indication of success we've had in keeping these animals in captivity. Uh, the early part of this century. We were lucky if a girl

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two or three years, maybe even less than that. Now we're setting some longevity records and we're going into birth. And of course number 50 uh is important because the gorilla population is declining and I think we're sort of becoming a noah's ark and the more we

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learn about preserving these animals in captivity, I think we're going to be able to perpetuate this beautiful animal. When the baby's mother first arrived at the San Francisco Zoo, she was thought to be a male and she was called Jacob for two years. Then she was

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examined for another medical problem. It was discovered that she was a female and Jack will improved it conclusively. Yesterday morning Art Brown reporting for News Watch from the san Francisco zoo. Oh no, that's right. Yeah.