Chimp caretaking experts at Oklahoma City Zoo discovered a mother chimpanzee was not caring for her newborn the way she should. They put their heads together and decided to remove the baby chimp from her biological mother. The baby was introduced to a new chimp family further east, at the third-oldest zoo in the United States. Baby Maisie left her mother, 12-year-old Nia, and arrived at Maryland Zoo in Baltimore in late September 2020. There, the zoo’s Chimp Forest animal care team took charge of her wellbeing and development. They introduced her to a new chimp family, which included Abby, her new monkey foster mom, who already had a stellar track record as a surrogate parent. Although Maisie was born a healthy chimp at the end of summer that year, the potentially disruptive move raised lingering concerns and uncertainty of how she would adapt to her new family and new …