{"id":17843,"date":"2025-04-14T00:08:13","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T00:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/17843\/"},"modified":"2025-04-14T00:08:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T00:08:13","slug":"the-beautiful-moment-a-mother-chimp-scoops-up-her-new-baby-the-day-after-c-section-look","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/17843\/","title":{"rendered":"The Beautiful Moment a Mother Chimp Scoops Up Her New Baby the Day After C-Section\u2013LOOK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-216754\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Chimpanzee-reaches-for-baby-Sedgwick-County-Zoo-SWNS-1024x551.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"375\"  \/>Chimpanzee reaches for baby \u2013 Sedgwick County Zoo \/ SWNS<\/p>\n<p>A heartwarming union was captured at a Kansas zoo this week when a chimpanzee mother met her baby for the first time 14 hours after she gave birth via C-section.<\/p>\n<p>Named Mahale, the 30-year-old primate at The Sedgwick County Zoo in Wichita gave birth to her first offspring since her last baby died accidentally two years ago when he was just five weeks old.<\/p>\n<p>The new baby, a female called Kyansa, was named after a mountain in the Mahale National Park in Tanzania, and was featured in a video.<\/p>\n<p>Watching how Mahale immediately pulled her new infant into her arms, cuddling her close, is proof of the strong \u201cpositive signs of bonding\u201d, <a href=\"https:\/\/scz.org\/blog\/its-a-baby-girl-for-chimpanzee-mahale\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to<\/a> caretakers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe pair will remain behind the scenes to allow time for Mahale to heal from surgery and for mom and baby to further develop their bond.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnother surgical delivery was prescribed in order to reduce the risks sometimes associated with natural births after C-sections.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Laura Whisler and Dr. Janna Chibry of College Hill OB-GYN in Wichita, Kansas, performed the cesarean section alongside the Zoo\u2019s veterinary and animal care teams.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-216753\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Chimpanzee-baby-in-Sedgwick-County-Zoo-SWNS.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"930\"  \/>Chimpanzee reaches for baby \u2013 Sedgwick County Zoo<\/p>\n<p>Mahale spent the night recovering from anesthesia before being reunited with baby the following morning. 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All 4 Types of Apes Have a Sense of Humor\u2013 Researchers Categorize Their Clowning in Video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodnewsnetwork.org\/monkeying-around-all-4-types-of-apes-have-sense-of-humor\/\" rel=\"bookmark noopener\" target=\"_blank\">All 4 Types of Apes Have a Sense of Humor\u2013 Researchers Categorize Their Clowning in New Video<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old chimpanzee has remained a key figure at the zoo, forming bonds with younger troop members, and being a loving \u201cauntie\u201d to a 1-year-old chimp resident.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SHARE THE MOMENT With Loving Moms On Social Media\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chimpanzee reaches for baby \u2013 Sedgwick County Zoo \/ SWNS A heartwarming union was captured at a Kansas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17844,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3847],"tags":[933,590,11915,11916,11917,70,11918,16,15,1717,11919],"class_list":{"0":"post-17843","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-animals","9":"tag-babies","10":"tag-cute","11":"tag-gorillas","12":"tag-kansas","13":"tag-science","14":"tag-top-videos","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-wildlife","18":"tag-zoos"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114333411223010801","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}