{"id":698482,"date":"2026-05-28T03:09:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T03:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/698482\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T03:09:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T03:09:10","slug":"baby-gorilla-born-via-rare-c-section-at-washington-state-zoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/698482\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby gorilla born via rare C-section at Washington state zoo"},"content":{"rendered":"

A baby gorilla born over the weekend at the Seattle zoo was delivered via a rare cesarean section, officials said.<\/p>\n

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The procedure was performed Sunday at Woodland Park Zoo, on a 29-year-old western lowland gorilla that was five days past her due date, the zoo said in a blog post Tuesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The newborn boy weighed 5.4 pounds, over a pound more than the average infant gorilla, the zoo said. <\/p>\n

He and his mother, Olympia, are in good health, a zoo official said in the post, though zoo officials remain cautious because the \u201csituation is very fluid and fragile.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to the zoo, fewer than a dozen C-sections have been performed on gorillas around the world. None have been done at Woodland.<\/p>\n

\"AOlympia, a gorilla housed at Woodland Park Zoo, in her habitat before her pregnancy.Jeremy Dwyer-Lindgren\/Woodland Park Zoo<\/p>\n

A team that typically does the procedure on humans performed a C-section on Olympia after an ultrasound showed decreased amniotic fluid and an incompletely dilated cervix, the zoo said.<\/p>\n

After the newborn was introduced to the troop, another gorilla that recently gave birth began caring for the baby. <\/p>\n

Zoo officials said that wasn\u2019t surprising and that they plan to allow the other mother, Jamanji, to care for both babies while Olympia recovers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A baby gorilla born over the weekend at the Seattle zoo was delivered via a rare cesarean section,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":698483,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,66,323],"class_list":["post-698482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=698482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/698483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}