{"id":109469,"date":"2017-12-09T15:17:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-09T15:17:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-01-08T10:52:42","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T10:52:42","slug":"first-gorilla-born-in-captivity-1956-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/09\/first-gorilla-born-in-captivity-1956-3\/","title":{"rendered":"First gorilla born in captivity, 1956"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><h3 class=\"post-title entry-title\"><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post-body entry-content\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_FN98eHvI0Yg\/Sy_QUwBHLXI\/AAAAAAAABoE\/0jhAyiXzHlc\/s1600-h\/ColoAtZoo.JPG\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/coloatzoo.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-109470\" \/><\/a>In  January 1951, a hunter called Bill Said brought three gorillas to  Columbus Zoo in Ohio. Two of the apes, Millie Christina and Baron  Macombo, stayed at the zoo as a mated pair. On 22nd December 1956, a  female gorilla was born to them, the first gorilla to be born in  captivity.<\/p>\n<p>That morning, a young veterinary student and  zoo-keeper called Warren Thomas noticed a change in Millie&#8217;s usual  behaviour, investigating further he found a baby gorilla still in the  amniotic sac. He took the baby to the kitchen where broke open the sac  to find the infant struggling to breathe. Thomas cleared the mucous from  the baby&#8217;s mouth and engaged in mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.<\/p>\n<p>Even  though the zoo staff overcame the initial crisis the baby still needed  round-the-clock attention, spending time in an incubator. While she  spent her time growing in strength zoo and city administrators decided  to hold a competition to find a name for the infant gorilla. Their  initial prize of $50 was boosted by a $100 donation from the actor Clark  Gable. Nineteen people submitted the winning entry, Colo, derived from <b>Col<\/b>umbus, <b>O<\/b>hio.<\/p>\n<p>Colo is now the oldest captive gorilla in the World, becoming a great-great-grandmother in 2003.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In January 1951, a hunter called Bill Said brought three gorillas to Columbus Zoo in Ohio. Two of the apes, Millie Christina and Baron Macombo, stayed at the zoo as a mated pair. On 22nd December 1956, a female gorilla was born to them, the first gorilla to be born in captivity. That morning, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":109470,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109469"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}