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Keeping an eye on her cub by Linda
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Ruth, taking a break but always keeping a sharp eye on her three-month-old son.
#ruth#panda#red panda#firecat#lesser panda#endangered#bamboo bear#nikon#D80#nikkor 70-300mm VR#SuperbMasterpiece#AnAwesomeShot#SpecAnimal#NaturesFinest#EmpyreanAnimals#ImpressedBeauty#cleveland metroparks zoo#Cleveland#OH#Ohio#nikkor 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 VR#flickr
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Welcome Baby Jameela!
Jameela’s birth in early January 2024 made international headlines after life-threatening complications threatened the health of her mother – Sekani – requiring an emergency cesarean – the first in Fort Worth Zoo’s history. Unfortunately, Sekani and other female gorillas at Fort Worth Zoo did not show maternal behaviors that would indicate a successful bond with Jameela. After attempts to introduce Jameela into the Fort Worth Zoo’s gorilla troop failed, it was collectively determined that her next best step would be a move to the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo, a long-term leader in gorilla research, care and management.
Jameela has arrived safely in Cleveland and will begin her journey in joining our gorilla group. Our gorillas have a successful history with surrogacy for baby gorillas and we are confident she will get the care she needs from our gorillas and animal keepers.
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Went to the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo with my sister since it's free for Cuyahoga residents and all on Mondays. Saw sooo many good animals but this guy!!!
This red panda is a fucking mood.
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#Amur leopard#Far Eastern leopard#endangered#Big Cat#Cleveland Metroparks Zoo#Metroparks Zoo#zoo#photo#captive
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status: having romantic feelings about cleveland, ohio, usa
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Me talking to the mental projections of Mogo Zoo and Zookeeper Chad in my head as I watch the latest video update on Jameela's hand-rearing/surrogacy journey like "wasn't that moment cute where the zookeeper in the GORILLA VEST handed Jameela over to the other zookeeper in the GORILLA VEST"
#statisticalcats zoo blogging#statisticalcats gorillas#zookeeper chad negative#mogo zoo negative#for context: gorilla vests are vests with fringe that zookeepers often wear when they have to hand-rear a baby gorilla#they help the babies learn to grip like they would be doing if they were with mom#baby gorillas grip onto their mom's hair as they're carried#so it's an important skill for them to develop#one of the problems i and other people have with the way mogo zoo has handled hand-rearing baby kaius#is apparently never making use of any sort of gorilla vest#fort worth zoo and now cleveland metroparks zoo sharing videos about jameela's journey#gives you such a clear look at how off poor kaius's journey has been#jameela acts so much more like a typical gorilla baby than kaius#because the zookeepers did all they could to raise her AS A GORILLA BABY#and it's going to make her integration into a troop so much easier#gorilla vests may seem like a small thing#but right now they're feeling like the big symbol of awareness and care about teaching baby gorillas how to be GORILLAS#even when human intervention is needed
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thinking abt him....
#thats wooly bill btw. hes at the cleveland metroparks zoo#and i wanna go see him so bad#its been so long man#goose honks#i am fucking crazy but i am free
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#Hotels near Cleveland Metroparks Zoo#Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Hotel#Cleveland Independence Attractions
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Very, very fresh bison calf.
Months and months ago I promised y'all photos of the bison birth I was lucky enough to observe at the Cleveland Zoo last spring. As requested, they'll be under a cut, because unlike this lovely photo from the zoo announcement post, my photos are... goopy.
His name is Tighee, a name which the zoo said is "the name of a Shoshone chief."
We walked up just as things started to get going, and the story is below the cut...
This is Blue, a female bison who arrived at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo in fall of 2022 already pregnant. When we got to the habitat, there were a ton of people gathered around, and it wasn't quite clear what was going on.
Then we noticed her full udder and the extra pair of feet.
She was dead-center in the (pretty large) habitat, which was nice - though there was a crowd, she had some good distance from everyone for most of it. The calf came pretty quickly, all things considered (something especially helpful when you're holding a heavy camera up on full manual zoom without a tripod). Because she was at a distance, my friend and I spent a bunch of time showing people near us photos on my camera screen so they could get a good view.
I was honestly really surprised at the number of people who asked why the zoo staff weren't in there with her, helping her give birth. So we explained to folk that zoo staff don't normally go in with bison on a normal day because they're so big and dangerous, and that during a birth (a time of potential stress for the whole herd, the rest of whom were off to the side of that habitat) it would be especially risky to do so. But you could see people in the zoo's uniform colors clustered around the fence, keeping a close eye on her.
And then there was a calf! For folk who haven't seen what a whole amniotic sac looks like, I'm including the next couple photos.
This one is still mid-birth, as you can see. The hooves come out first, with the calf's head laying parallel to them.
Blue immediately moves to break the amniotic sac and clear the calf's airways of mucus. Om nom nom.
We have open eyes and an awake baby! The amniotic sac is full of fluid that helps protect the baby while it's in the uterus, which means once it's broken, the baby is goopy. One of mom's first jobs is to lick all of it away to dry the calf off.
A first attempt at using legs!
Nope, being born was too hard and legs don't work yet. Time to rest and recover from the effort of thinking about standing up.
The first inquisitive member of the herd, another young female, comes to check out the newest addition.
More attempts at legs! Getting better but still not coordinated enough yet.
They're starting to help the baby stand up. In a non-captive setting it would be important for him to be able to walk pretty quickly after being born, and he has to stand up to be able to nurse!
Everyone comes to check him out, now.
We have legs! They work! He hadn't quite figured out where to nurse from yet, though.
And that's your bison birth for the day!
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Sony A6600 with Tamron 150-500 f/5-6.7 - Red panda at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo. August 2023.
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Baby Gorilla Jameela Introduction at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo
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A #RedPanda at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo
📆 February 4, 2024
📷 "Cleveland Metroparks Zoo" https://flic.kr/p/2pxrFEq by Erik Drost on Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/edrost88/ - CC BY 2.0 DEED https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/
#red panda#panda rojo#ailurus fulgens#roter panda#panda roux#lesser panda#kleiner panda#panda rosso#animal#redpanda
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#Amur leopard#Far Eastern leopard#endangered#Big Cat#Leopard#Cleveland Metroparks Zoo#Metroparks Zoo#zoo#photo#captive
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