Jameela was born four to six weeks early at the Fort Worth Zoo after her mother, Sekani, a 33-year-old Western Lowland Gorilla, began showing signs of preeclampsia and required an emergency C-section.
"In 2017, we started creating our new master plan exhibit and this was the last of those new exhibits we created," Kevin Hodge, vice president of animal programs at the zoo, told Chron."It's birds ...
A premature baby gorilla was delivered via emergency caesarean section at a US zoo after its mother suffered from a medical issue called preeclampsia. The "historic and emotional" birth of Jameela ...