Almost two full days after giving birth via emergency Caesarean section, a mother chimpanzee has had an emotional reunion with her baby.
Mahale, a female chimpanzee living at Sedgwick County Zoo in Wichita, Kansas, gave birth to a baby boy on Nov. 15. Mahale needed an emergency C-section after her natural labor stopped progressing, the zoo shared on Facebook, adding: “Baby wasn’t breathing well on his own, so he stayed in the hospital with the medical team until he could be reunited with mom.”
With the efforts of the veterinarians and zookeepers, the baby’s condition was stabilized.
On the morning of Nov. 17, when the mom and baby chimpanzees were reunited, the zoo staff captured the heartwarming moment on camera….