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For the second time in four weeks, an endangered Western lowland  
gorilla has given birth.

 A zookeeper found the newborn about 6 a.m. Saturday, said spokeswoman  
Ana Bowie. The first baby gorilla born at the Denver Zoo in 30 years,  
named Tulivu, arrived May 2.

 "With less than a dozen gorilla births a year in the United States,  
it's truly remarkable to have two births in such a short period of  
time," said Clayton Freiheit, Denver Zoo president.

 The latest mom, a 26-year-old gorilla named JoRayK, is keeping her  
newborn pretty close to her chest, so zookeepers have been unable to  
determine the gender of the baby. With mother and child bonding so  
well, zookeepers don't wish to intervene.

 Zoo officials said they don't know what to attribute the closely  
paired births to - other than coincidence.

 Both fathers, as well as Tulivu's mom, were recent arrivals from the  
Los Angeles Zoo, which loaned them to Denver while the gorilla habitat  
there is being renovated.

 "We don't know if it was the high altitude or what," Bowie said with a  
laugh.

 - Rocky Mountain News