Going ape: Week-old gorilla breaks hearts at Spanish zoo


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  • Saturday, 14 Nov 2020

A five-day-old baby male Western lowland gorilla is feed by his mother Buu as his father Echo touches her at Bioparc Fuengirola in Fuengirola, southern Spain November 13, 2020. REUTERS/Jon Nazca

FUENGIROLA, Spain (Reuters) - Carried around by doting mom Buu with the rest of his clan looking proctectively on, the baby gorilla born last week in an Andalusian zoo has quickly inspired affection among his human visitors too.

Jesus Recuero, a vet at the Bioparc Fuengirola, said the as yet unnamed male was born in the early hours of Nov. 7 and by morning he had been cleaned and was being nursed by 24-year-old Buu.

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