A gorilla and a new human mom were caught on video bonding over their babies at Boston’s Franklin Park Zoo.
In the tender clip, the gorilla, Kiki, is seen peering at and attempting to pet Emmelina Austin’s sleeping newborn son, Canyon, through the glass of her exhibit.
Austin said to NBC affiliate News Center Maine, “It was so sweet. For well over five minutes, she just sat there watching him and staring at him so lovingly.”
Then Kiki, a mother of five, brought her youngest son, 7-month-old Pablo, to see Canyon.
“Her face was just so in love,” Austin recalled. “She was showing her baby my baby... You could see the emotion in her eyes.”
This sweet moment is not the first time that Kiki, 39, has taken a special interest in someone else’s child.
John Linehan, president and CEO of Zoo New England, told “TODAY,” “We always joke that if a baby fell into our exhibit, Kiki wouldn’t give it back. She’s so maternal.”
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