When Emmily Austin of Jefferson, Maine, visited Boston’s Franklin Park Zoo with her 5-week-old baby, the pair shared a sweet moment with a gorilla who has her own baby boy.
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#Zoo #Animals #Motherhood
How cruel .
and you did not feel the emotion of these poor locked up animals ??
this planet dont deserve us…
She said we both are mommies to these two beautiful babies
Sp Beautiful!😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘❤❤❤❤❤❤
omg <3
Mama Gorilla : oh that poor hairless ape,don't fret dear you're beautiful in my eyes
Human mother : my baby's so adorable even fearsome beast love her
How sweet. We are all connected. We all matter.
Most beautiful emotion and kindness. What a gift! Our people need this perfect gift of love.
She walked into the zoo with her son….and walked out.
Beautiful
Looks like a new mom meeting. 😆
Gorillas should not be on the zoo
we are all animals and humans are usually not as emotionally intelligent as other animals are…case in point what is happening in Russia and in the Ukraine right now and in the Middle East…
Absolutely beautiful
Plot twist: If the glass wasnt there that gorilla would had mauled both of them.
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How merciful The Creator is!
So gorillas are that in touch with emotions yet we cage them? I don’t think that’s right. Animals should be free
She's so beautiful I'm in love 😀
This is a lie. That gorilla has not bonded with this woman and baby.
Its still in the cage.
Cute story other than her wearing a mask in the reflection. Take off the mask. It's a ploy to dehumanize you.
Motherhood is reserved only for females. Even if she cannot literally bare children, motherhood is reserved only for her. A man cannot claim to be a woman & claim motherhood.
A man can never be female. He can never become a woman. Female can never become a male. A woman cannot claim fatherhood. Male & Female are separate, it cannot be changed. Gender is not interchangeable by thought and perspective.
That made me cry! That was so beautiful! I love animals so much! They are amazing!
Awesome video! Congratulations on your new friend and your baby!
Precious, bittersweet moment ❤
If only we were better, they could be free.
OMG 💕👶God is so good! His creation is hard to put in to words. Miraculous 👏👏👏 ! Blessings upon blessings upon blessings to you and your family 😘
Guerilla Mom: we trade babies, now?
Their captivity IS and will always be one of mans biggest and egregious
Just let them vote already 😭
She still has those mama instincts running strong! What a sweet gorilla 😍
Zoo=prison
All that love ❤️💕
What a beautiful magical moment. Truly bless
ADORABLE!
Gorilla is prob like "why you idiots wearing that diaper on your face?"
Ich bin begeistert, Jawohl
My magical experience at the Boston Zoo was getting evacuated because a Momma Zebra escaped because she thought her Calf was hurt.
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We share 98% of the same DNA, the apes are our closest relatives. Of course they emote like us. They don’t belong in cages.
Why would you have gorillas in a zoo ?
Beautiful 🤩
Beautiful story but wish the gorillas weren’t in a zoo.
It's a good story. It would be even better if we don't lock wild animals in zoos.
Beautiful
This a HORRIBLE STORY!!!! These privilege people are at animal prison where the animals are on display in small enclosures… maybe the gorilla was trying to show that it has life too and doesn't deserve to be enslaved for people's mild entertainment.
Gorillas are human
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😭😭😭Mothers bonding💞💞💞
Kiki and the other gorillas at the Franklin Park Zoo are so wonderful. They deserve the best lives they can have. Give now to support them, expand their habitat and improve their daily lives.
Beautiful 🥰
Ya ummm still locked in a cage for our amusement. Can’t sugarcoat that with an “uplifting” story.
If you want to see something interesting, Google “gorilla baby and human baby reacting to a cold stethoscope.” It’s remarkable. Gorillas are our second closest relatives; our infants both look somewhat alike, and often have the same facial expressions. Mama gorilla knew a fellow mama and baby when she saw one 😊
Gorilla shows us it doesn’t matter the color of our skin. We are all in this world together. What matters is our hearts. Accept one another and don’t look at our physical differences.
That mom was amazed by your baby. Your baby is beautiful.
I just love this video and this story
Generous love on both sides of the glass! Both sweet and a little sad.
So very sweet
Absolutely beautiful interaction. What a story Mom will have to tell her baby one day!
This is beautiful, amazing, life changing.❤
Let's cage up a few more animals so people can be impressed 👍
What a sweet story. Now let's reward this conscientious animal by keeping it imprisoned for our personal pleasure. Love it ❤❤
That was just so adorable. My heart melts. I have seen pictures of gorilla Kiki before. She is wonderful.
And as a totally irrelevant aside, my goodness, that human woman is INCREDIBLY pretty. Especially for a new mom coming from the zoo!
Now they gotta set up a play date.
When did Lorde have a kid?
Right in the feels
Beautiful ❣️
That's adorable. 😊
Never forget Harambe died protecting a boy
Good job
Mommies are mommies no matter the species!♥️
If they met in the jungle, he would become tarzan
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But the gorillas are just trapped by you humans to entertain you exactly like this. How pathetic.
Im a mother of two i would just have given the gorilla my child 😂😂😂
Free all my animal brother and sisters
This was just beautiful. I told my adult son to watch it and he was like, "mom, I'm not into that mushy stuff like you" LOL! But it's more than mushy – it's evolution, it's nature, it's a miracle! I do wonder what would have happened though, if that gorilla would've gotten his hands on the baby…………would she have known not to rip its face off?
There are "people" that kil these animals for fun. It's almost like murdering a person. Not quite, but close.
Awwww, all the feelz <3
How poachers could harm these beautiful creatures I'll never know nor do I want to.
Ayo wtf they evolving
Absolutely precious this encounter is.
Isn't the natural question to ask why is one mother held captive behind glass?
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Shes so gentle! Awesome!
Slicing onions
My name is Canyon and I have only met one other canyon in my life. Cool story!
Reminds me of something I saw at the old Great Ape House at Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago back in the 90s. They had an enclosure near the entrance that had some young gorillas in it. One of them, don't know the age, but was I'm guessing about 24 inches tall, was running back and forth at the glass with a little human boy who seemed to be in the 4 to 6 year age range. Of course cell phones weren't as common then, and the ones that were around didn't even have text capabilities, much less cameras, so I wasn't able to get video of it (and yes, would have asked parents for permission first if I'd had a VHS video camera).
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Awesome☺☺☺😊
Oh my goodness, it brought tears to my eyes!! That is one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen as well!! The love of our children is shared across countless species. 😢😭😭😭
This is amazing. The emotions involved from the Ape is so obvious. Even these animals have more compassion than a lot of people I know!
Something tells me the mom gorilla would have never harmed the baby if she could have held it. The few times small children have fallen into gorilla enclosures the females protected the human child.
The gorilla was holding her baby exactly same way the woman was holding to find similarities…. As if saying…look I got one too…we are same….and the father's were both watching from near…..without interrupting their families…. Yeah we primates are similar….
Who da fuq takes a newborn to a zoo. Named the kid canyon. Good luck kid
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That's Lovely 😻
This is the type of content I signed for
al roker just came in and ruined everything
This is sad- Zoo's? This is a jail no? 😐