Last night, Salonga gave birth to her baby! She did it all by herself in the enclosure, we didn’t have to isolate her or anything! Everything went well, she cut the umbilical cord and went out with the rest of the group into the forest, and around 9am she came back and ate 8 bananas and 2 oranges!
We just know she’s going to be a super mom, she has always been very motherly. In fact she was always gathering frogs from the pond to pamper and smother with love – sometimes unfortunately to death!
The baby isn’t big, but has a full head of hair, and clings to his mom tenaciously. We are so happy, it’s wonderful news after the death of Malou.
Kisses from Lola,
Claudine.
Donations made here are
Mar 17th Maciej G USD 15.00
10 Comments
Congratulations. I receive this birth with deeply HOPE in the future. Thank you very much Claudine.
Congratulations! This is wonderful news, Claudine. If there’s supposed to be a picture of Salonga and her baby, it’s not showing up. I can’t wait to see the baby!
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Fantastic news. I can’t wait to see a photo of Saolonga and her little babe.
Claudine, thank you for bringing us this hopeful news. We are like grandmothers, waiting to see pictures of our grandkids!
How sweet! Great news to hear…sounds like mom was hungry after all that hard work! Best wishes to her and her little bundle of joy!!!!!!!
Best wishes for the newborn and his mum. It must be very uplifting for you after the recent sad events.
Congratulations from Nairobi!!! Cant wait to see the NEW BABY!!! Whats the name???
Can’t get pic to open but so…. anxious to see –
The picture is on someone’s password-protected Yahoo! page – that’s why we can’t see it. It needs to be uploaded to the Wordpress blog, not linked from an e-mail message. Hope that helps whomever can fix it.
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Congrats! Cannot wait to see the pictures!!