WASHINGTON — Zoo staff at the Smithsonian National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute are celebrating the birth of a western lowland gorilla. The western lowland gorilla is a critically endangered ...

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Primate keepers—with help from the western lowland gorilla troop—revealed that the baby gorilla born May 27 at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute is female. Pictured are ...

The baby primate was born early Saturday between midnight and 6:15 a.m. EDT, Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute wrote in a news release. The western lowland gorilla is a ...

Left: Newborn gorilla cradled by mother Calaya, a 20-year-old female western lowland gorilla. She gave birth to her second offspring May 27 at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology ...