{"id":23854,"date":"2023-02-08T08:12:12","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T13:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxfm\/?p=23854"},"modified":"2023-02-08T08:29:03","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T13:29:03","slug":"zoo-solves-mystery-of-isolated-gibbons-pregnancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxfm\/blogs\/mornings\/2023\/02\/zoo-solves-mystery-of-isolated-gibbons-pregnancy\/","title":{"rendered":"Zoo Solves Mystery Of Isolated Gibbon&#8217;s Pregnancy"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CS_qXZiHaMz\/embed\/captioned\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display:inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height:0;\"  class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe>\n<p>A Japanese zoo said it has solved the mystery of a gibbon became pregnant while living in isolation &#8212; and a tiny hole in a board is to blame.<\/p>\n<p>Zookeepers at Kujukushima Zoo and Botanical Garden Mori Kirara in Sasebo City, Nagasaki Prefecture, said they were surprised when a lar gibbon named Momo<a href=\"https:\/\/mainichi.jp\/english\/articles\/20230131\/p2a\/00m\/0li\/003000c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0gave birth in February 2021<\/a>, as the ape had been living in her own enclosure without any males present.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said Momo was protective of her offspring, so it was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/5d3xaq\/japan-gibbon-pregnant-ape-monkey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nearly two years before they were able<\/a>\u00a0to collect enough stool and excrement samples from the mother and baby to perform DNA tests.<\/p>\n<p>The father of the male baby was found to be Itou, a 34-year-old agile gibbon. Zookeepers said the two apes were never on display together, but they discovered that the partition between Momo&#8217;s exhibit and the back yard where Itou was kept while off-display had a perforated board with holes about 9 millimeters (.35 inches) in diameter.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said they now believe the apes managed to mate through one of the holes.<\/p>\n<p>The board has now been replaced by a solid steel plate. Officials said they are now planning to attempt to introduce Itou and Momo officially so they and their child can live as a family.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Japanese zoo said it has solved the mystery of a gibbon became pregnant while living in isolation &#8212; and a tiny hole in a board is to blame. Zookeepers at Kujukushima Zoo and Botanical Garden Mori Kirara in Sasebo City, Nagasaki Prefecture, said they were surprised when a lar gibbon named Momo\u00a0gave birth in","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":23856,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[6224,6225,6227,6228,6226],"class_list":["post-23854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mornings","tag-gibbon","tag-lesser-ape","tag-pregnancy","tag-whos-the-daddy","tag-zoo"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-19 15:37:18","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/1017theone.ca\/blogs\/mornings\/2023\/02\/zoo-solves-mystery-of-isolated-gibbons-pregnancy\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23855,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23854\/revisions\/23855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}