A gibbon who lived alone in her cage had a baby. Japanese zookeepers finally know how

[steveluv]

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/02/09/asia/japan-zoo-gibbon-pregnancy-mystery-intl-hnk/index.html

A gibbon who lived alone in her cage had a baby. Japanese zookeepers finally know how
By Xiaofei Xu, Philip Wang and Junko Ogura, CNN
Updated 2:36 AM EST, Fri February 10, 2023

CNN  — Japanese zookeepers believe they have solved the mystery of how a gibbon became pregnant despite living alone in her cage.

Momo, a 12-year-old white-handed gibbon, shocked her keepers at the Kujukushima Zoo and Botanical Garden in Nagasaki in February 2021 when she gave birth despite having no male companionship.

Now two years later, following a DNA test on her baby, the zoo has worked out who the father is – and even has a theory about how the gibbons mated.

The test showed the father to be Itō, a 34-year-old agile gibbon, who was in an adjacent enclosure to Momo around the time she became pregnant.

The zoo told CNN on Friday it believed that Momo and Itō had managed to mate through a small hole in a steel plate between their enclosures. The hole measured about 9 millimeters (0.3 inch) in diameter.

Momo the gibbon and her baby at the Kujukushima Zoo.

The baby ape – who is yet to be named – now weighs around 2 kilograms (4.4 pounds) and is “growing healthily” under Momo’s loving attention, the zoo said. 

“It is a precious life born into the world, we will continue to take good care of him and hope that he will live a healthy long life,” said Hideki Hisano, deputy director of the zoo. 

 Gibbons are among the smallest apes, but they have loud singing voices that have developed into an elaborate language, and can swing from branch to branch at speeds of up to 35 miles per hour.

There are dozens of gibbon species that are native to parts of Asia, ranging from northeastern India to China and all the way to the Borneo archipelago.

The population of agile gibbons in the wild has been decreasing and they have been listed as an endangered species in the International Union for Conservation of Nature, because their habitat is threatened by human activities such as deforestation, mining and road construction.

[macrosszero]

Glory hole? 😚

[PSP415]

Dun need alot of space. 

🤣🤣

[Estrangable]

Scare me sia bro... Walau I tot it's virgin birth... Imagine the irony in this..

[Ahwhye]

49 minutes ago, PSP415 said:

Dun need alot of space. 

🤣🤣

yeah indeed.... about 9mm diameter is enough......😅😅😅

[Inlinefour]

protege of Small Space Auntie Jo 

Edited February 10, 2023 by Inlinefour

[BanCoe]

2 minutes ago, Inlinefour said:

Virgin Mary protege 

Aiyah ! Only @Jamesc …… got the answers …… anything to do with Jepun …n…… primates …... his MIL knows 1 🤣🤣

Edited February 10, 2023 by BanCoe

[inlinesix]

How long his kkj?

Edited February 10, 2023 by inlinesix

[Inlinefour]

7 minutes ago, BanCoe said:

Aiyah ! Only @Jamesc …… got the answers …… anything to do with Jepun …n…… primates …... his MIL knows 1 🤣🤣

ha ha ha ... you so naughty boy 

[Jamesc]

10 minutes ago, BanCoe said:

Aiyah ! Only @Jamesc …… got the answers …… anything to do with Jepun …n…… primates …... his MIL knows 1 🤣🤣

[Watwheels]

1 hour ago, Estrangable said:

Scare me sia bro... Walau I tot it's virgin birth... Imagine the irony in this..

Baby Gibbon will be called Geesus with a "G"...for Gibbon.

[bsswan]

1 hour ago, Estrangable said:

Scare me sia bro... Walau I tot it's virgin birth... Imagine the irony in this..

Haha, I thought it was the zoo keeper 😜

[Spurman]

Our minister is rite. U just need a small room. With a small hole

[Old-driver]

For a moment i thought the culprit is the zoo-keeper 😆

[Estrangable]

Screw you guys …. I am not going to post any controversial messages about this :.. knn .. I was banned for 2 weeks when Abe was assassinated when I showed that zhu guo was delighted about it … now it’s a totally different level … I could been banned permanently 

Edited February 10, 2023 by Estrangable

[D3badge]

2 hours ago, Estrangable said:

Scare me sia bro... Walau I tot it's virgin birth... Imagine the irony in this..

I thought was a desperate zookeeper 

[mersaylee]

2 hours ago, inlinesix said:

How long his kkj?

When one is long for the big S...it'll go a long way to get it 😁 

[Windwaver]

4 hours ago, steveluv said:

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/02/09/asia/japan-zoo-gibbon-pregnancy-mystery-intl-hnk/index.html

A gibbon who lived alone in her cage had a baby. Japanese zookeepers finally know how
By Xiaofei Xu, Philip Wang and Junko Ogura, CNN
Updated 2:36 AM EST, Fri February 10, 2023

CNN  — Japanese zookeepers believe they have solved the mystery of how a gibbon became pregnant despite living alone in her cage.

Momo, a 12-year-old white-handed gibbon, shocked her keepers at the Kujukushima Zoo and Botanical Garden in Nagasaki in February 2021 when she gave birth despite having no male companionship.

Now two years later, following a DNA test on her baby, the zoo has worked out who the father is – and even has a theory about how the gibbons mated.

The test showed the father to be Itō, a 34-year-old agile gibbon, who was in an adjacent enclosure to Momo around the time she became pregnant.

The zoo told CNN on Friday it believed that Momo and Itō had managed to mate through a small hole in a steel plate between their enclosures. The hole measured about 9 millimeters (0.3 inch) in diameter.

Momo the gibbon and her baby at the Kujukushima Zoo.

The baby ape – who is yet to be named – now weighs around 2 kilograms (4.4 pounds) and is “growing healthily” under Momo’s loving attention, the zoo said. 

“It is a precious life born into the world, we will continue to take good care of him and hope that he will live a healthy long life,” said Hideki Hisano, deputy director of the zoo. 

 Gibbons are among the smallest apes, but they have loud singing voices that have developed into an elaborate language, and can swing from branch to branch at speeds of up to 35 miles per hour.

There are dozens of gibbon species that are native to parts of Asia, ranging from northeastern India to China and all the way to the Borneo archipelago.

The population of agile gibbons in the wild has been decreasing and they have been listed as an endangered species in the International Union for Conservation of Nature, because their habitat is threatened by human activities such as deforestation, mining and road construction.

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