Gorilla who kept dead baby gives birth again

BERLIN – A traumatised gorilla who carried around her dead baby’s body for several days in a German zoo last year has given birth again – and this time her offspring is healthy.

Twelve-year-old Gana’s very public mourning for her last child gained widespread attention last year. The baby gorilla, Claudio, died when he was three months old of a severe intestinal infection.Gana’s new daughter was born early on Sunday, said Ilona Zuehlke, a spokeswoman for the Allwetter Zoo in Muenster.The newborn is healthy and lively, much to the mother’s apparent joy, Zuehlke said Tuesday.’Gana looks very happy,’ she told The Associated Press.Zuehlke said the zoo probably would name the baby Claudia – after Claudia Kleinert, a German television weather forecaster and presenter.The zoo asked Kleinert to be the baby’s godmother because ‘she showed enormous interest in the mother’s last baby, which ended up dying tragically,’ Zuehlke said.Visitors can already see the new arrival, one of the zoo’s six gorillas.The baby is Gana’s third. Her first child, a female born in 2007, now lives at the Stuttgart zoo. – Nampa-AP

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