It's a Girl! Baby Chimpanzee Born at North Carolina Zoo

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It’s a Girl! Baby Chimpanzee Born at North Carolina Zoo

January 19, 2012

Posted in Chimpanzee, North Carolina Zoo

A baby chimpanzee was born at the North Carolina Zoo Monday evening. The little female has been named Ebi. This is the second baby for Mom Tammy, a 41-year-old female, who had previously given birth to Maki in March 1994.

Both mother and daughter are doing fine. Tammy is caring for her infant without any intervention from zoo staff members. The two are not on exhibit and will not be in the foreseeable future due to the cold weather and the infant-rearing process. According to General Curator Ken Reininger, it will be at least summer before the two will be on exhibit.

Ebi's arrival makes her the 12th chimp birth at the park since its opening in 1974 and the second since August 2010. The North Carolina Zoo's chimp troop is one of the largest in U.S. zoos.

Photo Credit: Jb Minter/N.C. Zoo

2 responses to “It’s a Girl! Baby Chimpanzee Born at North Carolina Zoo”

Carissa

January 19, 2012

Yay! A chimp birth! They’re my favorite, yet so rare. What a beautiful baby chimp. Thank you for this post 🙂

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Michael

January 20, 2012

Apparently chimps’ life expectancy is about 60 years in captivity, and this new mother is over 40, so I wonder (as I did last year about a giraffe mother) whether other mammals go through menopause, or if they remain capable of breeding throughout their lives. In the wild (“nature, red in tooth and claw”) animals seldom die of natural causes, so I speculate that they DO typically breed until death, but do they in captivity as well?

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