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Re: Gorillas
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Jenny Parratt <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 19 Aug 1995 16:23:15 +1000
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>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)

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