Moms in the mist Primate keepers at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo are mothering a baby gorilla

From: Rocky Mountain News | Date: August 26, 2006| Author: Jim Sheeler, Rocky Mountain News Photos by Steven R. Nickerson, Rocky Mountian News | Copyright information

Inside the makeshift nursery at the zoo, a woman dressed in blue hospital scrubs looked down at the wrinkly, hairy baby on her lap.

Outside the thick glass of the Primate World exhibit, a visitor pointed at the zookeeper, and the tiny endangered Western Lowland Gorilla.

"She sleeps in there with him all the time," the woman explained to her friend. "How'd you like to have that job?"

Inside the exhibit at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, the zookeeper slung the gorilla onto her back ...

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