Photo: Khalil Baalbaki, ZOO Praha
Jane Goodall, the famous English primatologist and anthropologist who has spent decades studying chimpanzees, is paying a special visit to the Prague Zoo this weekend. Goodall will be naming one of the Zoo’s new baby gorillas, a special event which spokesman for the Prague Zoo Filip Mašek told me more about.
“Jane Goodall is a long-time friend of the Prague Zoo, and she accepted our invitation regarding the two baby gorillas that were born in the zoo this year. We also welcomed a baby orangutan two weeks ago. Within five months, we have welcomed three critically endangered primates to the zoo. This is something that is really extraordinary, and is a really big step in our conservation efforts. This is exactly the work that Jane Goodall has been doing her whole life. She’s accepted our invitation, and she will be ‘baptizing’ the second born gorilla baby that we welcomed a few months ago.”
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