This is Wild Chronicles. I am White Matthews.

At the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, an infant gorilla named Wumundi gets some tender loving care from a dedicated keeper and lots of attention from curious visitors.

He is on with a keeper all the time 24 hours a day.

Zoo spokesman Sean Anglum explains that the baby's real mother abandoned him at birth. Twelve-year-old Kwisha was hand raised by humans with diapers and bottle. She had nowhere to learn how to raise her own young.

His mom gave birth to him and didn't really know what to do with him. She was hand reared; she never had a child before; she had never been around other gorillas that have a baby so she really didn't know any of the procedure. She didn't know what to do.

Wild gorillas, on the other hand, have plenty of role models.

I often tell people of the human, has never seen a baby and never seen, you know, anything on TV, or books about a baby, and have a baby, they probably wouldn't know what to do either. We just take it for granted that, so much around us teaches us what we need to know. And they are really about the same way; they need to learn most of things they know.

詞語(yǔ)解釋:

2. diaper n. 尿布