via IFTTT *Looking at Baby Hasini from when he was born to the time they closed Bristol Zoo (moving hopefully next 2024 to their new place "Bristol Zoo Project" * An older video but unseen footage from Bristol Zoo. This is going back to when Hasani was born. He was pretty fragile and Kala found it difficult looking after him and feeding him. He was so tiny. Staff did take over in the end and hand-reared him. The staff trained Kera the other female Gorilla in the troop to take over as a surrogate mother when Hasani was a bit older. Kera and Hasani had some difficult times as well as she seemed stressed sometimes, but in the end, it all worked out. Hasani grew strong and independent. His birth mum Kala started to take a bit more interest as well. It was more like a playmate than a son, but Kera and Kala started to share looking after Hasani. Kera does love her food and when she left Hasani behind in favour of food, Kera would come and play with him for a bit. Kala sits in the grass not really sure what to do with her baby. She flops his head up and you hope he's going to be OK and just want to see him moving. She then puts him on her back upside down and he clings on to her. So he seems OK. Hasani grew into a super cute baby boy. The next bit is after the staff integrated Hasani back into the family Kera the surrogate Mum has Hasani clinging on to her leg. Hasani lets go and is now between Kera and Kala. Kala his birth mum is coming closer, and behind her is Touni with her son Juni. Hasani feels the tension coming from Touni and Kala and crouches into the grass. Kala climbs on the big log and beats her chest. Hasani runs towards her after she jumped off the log. Touni has a look at what Kera is doing. Little Juni on her back with his great big beautiful eyes always looking around, taking everything in. Touni is a much more experienced mum having had her daughter Ayana. Kala still has Hasani on her back, while Kera is busy at lunchtime gathering all the food she can get. Stay connected and never miss a moment! Subscribe to my channel and activate all the notifications to be the first to know when new videos are released. This video was filmed in 2020. If you've been following the gorillas you might know that they are still in the closed Bristol Zoo. They are getting a new enclose built in 2024 and that's when they will be moved to the new Bristol Zoo just outside the city centre. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to visit any other gorilla troops as I concentrated on Twycross Zoo with Gorilla Lope leaving this year. If you would like to know the Bristol Zoo gorilla Family more, check out this introduction video: https://youtu.be/I5IejS2QY4w and some more info here: The first Gorilla arrived at Bristol Zoo on 8th September 1930 named Alfred. The Zoo itself opened on 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 in their arms. So Afia was slowly introduced to Romina and in October started bonding with her surrogate mother. Kera did recover after being ill for a while 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, Touni gave birth to the second baby gorilla for Bristol Zoo that year during covid lockdown and he has 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 is 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.
