This occurred at the Brookfield Zoo (in Chicago) near me. More info on the female gorilla. She is currently nursing (of course) her own baby; born in Feb. 1995. She was a hand-raised baby herself and was introduced into the Gorilla troup at Brookfield in 1991 as a 3 yr old. Her current baby is her first. The zoo keepers kept talking about how "close" she is to the keepers! They expected she would "nurture" so were not surprised at her behavior. What is scary is that the 3 yr old fell 30 feet onto concrete (is still in serious condition in hospital) and that male gorillas might NOT have been quite so nurturing had they got to him first! Everyone is oohing and ahing about the female gorilla. Have said nothing about her baby (who was riding on her back at the time of the incident and stayed there while she carried the child to the door of the enclosure). There have been some shots of him carried ventrally and nursing (as they do). Def. of LC service: "We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations." Kathleen G. Auerbach,PhD, IBCLC (Homewood, IL)- [log in to unmask] WEB PAGE: http://www.mcs.com/~auerbach/lactation.html LACTNET archives http://library.ummed.edu/lsv/archives/lactnet.html