CNN —Zookeepers at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium arrived to a pair of unexpected discoveries Thursday morning: a newborn baby gorilla and the news that its mother wasn’t a male gorilla.
The gorilla, Sully, has lived at the facility with her mother since 2019 and was thought to be male until “the gorilla care team discovered her holding the unexpected baby gorilla early Thursday,” the zoo announced in a news release.
There are an estimated 100,000 left in the wild across central Africa, says the Columbus Zoo.
The surprise discovery builds on a history of gorilla conservation at the Columbus Zoo.
The facility “was the first zoo in the world to welcome the birth of a baby gorilla” in 1956, according to the release.
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