A bouncing baby gorilla has been born at the Fort Worth Zoo in Texas
The unnamed infant is just the second-ever western lowland gorilla born at the facility, according to a Facebook post. The baby was born early on November 6 to parents Gracie and Elmo, the zoo says. He likely weighs between 4 and 5 pounds, which is normal for newborn gorillas. But by the time he’s an adult, he might weigh as much as 500 pounds, according to the Smithsonian Zoo’s size estimates for western lowland gorillas.
The large apes live in the dense rainforests of Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and the Republic of Congo. But even though the western lowland gorilla is the most numerous gorilla subspecies, it has still faced serious population decline over the last decades due to poaching and disease, says the World Wildlife Fund. The species is categorized as critically endangered by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.
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