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Ramar Sires Third Offspring.05/10/2005
According
to Brookfield officials, Ramar's mate Binti Jua, a 17-year-old female, gave birth to a 4-5
pound infant on May 2. Both mom and baby are doing well and can
be seen with their gorilla troop in Brookfield’s Tropic
World exhibit. The baby’s sex has not been determined.
This is the second birth for Binti Jua, who gained international prominence in 1997 when she helped rescue a child who fell into the Brookfield gorilla exhibit. When the child landed in the exhibit, Tinti Jua rushed to pick him up, cradled him gently in her arms and carried him to a doorway where zoo staff could reach him. Before leaving for Brookfield in October 1998, Ramar was one of the North Carolina Zoo’s most well-known animals. Staff let him leave for Brookfield after the Gorilla Species Survival Plan (a cooperative program administered by the American Zoo & Aquarium Association) suggested that the transfer was in the best interest of both Ramar and the captive gorilla population. Because he was born in Africa and, consequently, is unrelated to any zoo gorillas, the Species Survival Plan wanted to give Ramar every to chance to breed and contribute his genetic material to the gorilla gene pool that America's zoos are working to protect. From 1974 to 1978, the N.C. Zoo exhibited Ramar in the old Interim Zoo, the park’s first public exhibit area. He quickly gained fame as the Zoo's most popular resident. While the Zoo built its first permanent gorilla exhibit, Ramar lived for awhile at the Philadelphia Zoo and later at the Miami Metrozoo. He returned to North Carolina in 1984 in plenty of time to participate in the grand opening of the zoo’s African Pavilion gorilla habitat. Over the years, the Zoo brought in several females as potential mates for Ramar, but he never sired any offspring here. Ramar's move to Brookfield turned out to be good one for him. In his new surroundings, Ramar thrived as his troop's dominant silverback, siring two offspring with two other females prior to this birth. His first offspring is Nadaya, now 4 years old; his second, is Kamba, now 8 months old. Brookfield Zoo is sponsoring a "Name the Gorilla" contest to choose a name for the new baby.     |
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