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London Zoo and Prague Zoo have both welcomed newborn gorillas, who belong to the critically endangered western lowland species. After a brief 17-minute labour, London’s new infant was born on Wednesday to mum Mjukuu, following an approximately eight-and-a-half-month pregnancy. Its father, Kiburi arrived in London from Tenerife in November 2022 as part of the international conservation breeding programme. Native to central Africa, western lowland gorillas were declared critically endangered in 2007 because of habitat loss as well as deaths caused by the Ebola virus and hunters who killed them i…

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