NSW: Mahale makes eventful Sydney zoo debut

AAP General News (Australia)
08-28-2008
NSW: Mahale makes eventful Sydney zoo debut

A new baby lowland gorilla has made his public debut at Sydney's Taronga Zoo today.

Hordes of photographers and visitors have jostled to see MAHALE .. which is Swahili
for "event" .. as his mother MOUILA tenderly carried him in her arms around the zoo's
gorilla enclosure.

The 10-day-old naturally conceived bub is MOUILA's sixth offspring .. and his father
KIBABU's fourteenth.

The birth brings the total number of gorillas at Taronga Zoo to nine.

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KEYWORD: GORILLA (SYDNEY)

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