World's Loneliest Gorilla Baby Will Just Find a New Family, I Guess
It looks like Kamina—the lonesome ape baby raised by humans and rejected by her own—will be hitting the old dusty trail again after two more gorilla moms refused to take her in.
Born this August at the Oklahoma City Zoo, Kamina was shunned by her birth mother and reared by human surrogates who "gorillafied" her by wearing hairy vests and crawling on their knees.
Sadly, Kamina's planned gorilla foster parents at the Cincinnati Zoo also failed to bond with her.
"Kamina has learned all of the behaviors she needs to know in order to be successful in a gorilla group," said primate team leader Ron Evans in a statement. "Unfortunately, neither of the adult females that we hoped would bond with her did."
Kamina will now be moving to the Columbus Zoo so a new primate family can either learn to love the sweet ape baby or spurn her once more.
[Image via Cincinnati Zoo]