>I remember reading ... somewhere ... a human mother who
>nursed her human baby in the cage next to a pregnant gorilla so that the
>gorilla would be able to see what she should do with her own baby when it came.
>Mother gorilla did the right thing - example plus instinct worked.


That was at the Melbourne Zoo, Victoria, Australia and it was a member of
Nursing Mothers Assoc. who did the feeding. I think the mother gorilla may
have had another baby since then too.
Jenny Parratt RN RM IBCLC BHlthSc(Nursing Studies)