London Zoo welcomes another endangered baby gorilla | - Times of India
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London Zoo announced the arrival of a second endangered western lowland gorilla baby on Tuesday. The infant, who was born to mother Effie on February 8 and is yet to be named, arrives just three and a half weeks after another western lowland gorilla was born at the zoo. Both arrivals boost numbers of a subspecies that is critically endangered. While the exact numbers of lowland gorillas in the wild are unknown, their numbers are thought to have declined by around 60% in the last 25 years. Western lowland gorillas can be distinguished from other gorilla subspecies by their slightly smaller size, their brown-grey coats and auburn chests, according to the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). Difficult birth entangled in umbilical cord The newborn, who joins an enclosure called Gorilla Kingdom, kept zookeepers on their toes as it was born wrapped in its umbilical cord. The zoo said that staff maintainted constant vigil over the weekend in case the cord posed any risk to the n