Two Gorilla Mothers With Their Babies On The Back Charging And Clapping

This week we're back to the Bristol Zoo Gorillas. Keeping you up to date with the family every Thursday. Gorilla mother Touni with her son Juni on her back is standing in front of Gorila Kera. She's trying to see what Kera is eating and has a good sniff. Cute baby Juni is wiggling about on mum's back. She moves to the other side and Juni hides behind her back, when suddenly Gorilla Kera comes charging past her. Touni quickly moves out of her way. She then walks to the front of the hut. Gorilla Kala and her son Hasani are on top of the hut. Kala is charging and beating her chest with her baby on her back. A close-up of Touni and Juni below. Juni is having a glance to the top. Probably wondering why Kala is shaking her head and what all the charging and beating her chest is for. Then Kala claps her hand and Hasani holding on tight to her back. Now Touni is kicking against the hut. That's when Kera (Hasani's surrogate mother) is coming around the corner. Juni is making a quick getaway. It seems like Kera and Kala are almost ganging up on Touni. As Touni was always the most confident and she was the one that did the charging. Kera sits down, has a quick look towards Kera and Hasani. It's like a "You're OK now, she's gone" type of reaction. A few minutes later Touni turns the tables by beating her chest towards Kala and Hasani. (Touni/Juni on the left and Kala and Hasani on the right), but that was it and they move in different directions. I try and see the Bristol zoo gorillas every couple of months or so. On this visit, it seems that Kala (Hasani's real mother) is spending a bit more time with her son. There are still limits for her and she's still sharing motherly duties with Kera the surrogate Mother. Hasani seems quite happy in swapping mums. Him being quite clever he probably uses the situation to get his own way. :-) More next Thursday! The first Gorilla arrived at Bristol zoo in 8th September 1930 named Alfred. The Zoo itself opened in July 11th 1836! The first gorilla birth was on March 6th 1971. Currently, there are 8 gorillas at the Bristol Zoo. Starting off with Jock the Silverback, he was born on May 31st 1983 at Zoo La Palmyre. He got moved to the Bristol Zoo on the 25.June 2003. His offspring are: Namoki, Komale, Kukena, Afia, Ayana, Hasani and Juni. Kera was born on August 26th 2004 at the Parc Zoológic de Barcelona. She moved to the Bristol zoo on the 08.September 2008. Her offspring is Afia. Afia was born by emergency cesarean section at Bristol Zoo on the 12th of February 2016 after her mother, Kera, showed symptoms of potentially life-threatening pre-eclampsia. She had to be hand-raised. Gorilla Romina took an interest in Afia when the keepers walked past her with Afia on their arms. So Afia was slowly introduced to Romina and in October started bonding with her surrogate mother. Kera did recover after being ill, but didn't recognize Afia as her daughter. Romina took over to raise her, but sadly they had to put her to sleep in Aug 2018 because she had an advanced large cancerous mass in her abdomen. Afia by then was part of the group and dad Jock and the other females looked after her. Touni was born on the 12th of December 2007 at the La Vallée des Singes and moved to the Bristol Zoo on the 28.September 2015. Her daughter is Ayana who was born on the 22nd of April 2017. On 22 December 2020, Toni gave birth to the second baby gorilla for Bristol zoo that year during covid lockdown and he was named a combination of his Mother’s and Father's name, Juni. Kala was born on the 11th of December 2010 in Hannover. She's the newest member of the group as she joined on the 16.October 2018. She was pregnant in Sep 2019, but sadly lost the baby. The cause of death is unknown. On August 19th 2020 Kala gave birth to baby Hasani. Unfortunately she couldn’t feed him properly and was being hand-raised by Bristol Zoo staff members. In May 2021 Kera showed interest in Hasani and became the new surrogate mother of the little boy. I will put some playlists at the bottom for you to follow from early on until this day. On 3 September 2022 the inner city center Bristol zoo is closing and relocating some of their animals like the gorillas to the Wildlife project place which is just outside of Bristol not too far away. If you would like to see more of the Wildlife place they are moving to, you can watch this hyperlapse I have done on my travel channel: https://youtu.be/PUZ1F2dwhEE All Bristol Zoo Gorilla videos: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLX... Gorilla Hasani Growing Up https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLX... Gorilla Touni & Her Baby Juni https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLX...