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New hope: German gorilla gives birth again

BERLIN – A traumatized gorilla who carried around her dead baby's body
for several days in a German zoo last year has given birth again — and
this time her offspring is healthy.

Twelve-year-old Gana's very public mourning for her last child gained
widespread attention last year. The baby gorilla, Claudio, died when
he was three months old of a severe intestinal infection.

Gana's new daughter was born early Sunday, said Ilona Zuehlke, a
spokeswoman for the Allwetter Zoo in Muenster.

The newborn is healthy and lively, much to the mother's apparent joy,
Zuehlke said Tuesday.

"Gana looks very happy," she told The Associated Press.

Zuehlke said the zoo probably would name the baby Claudia — after
Claudia Kleinert, a German television weather forecaster and
presenter.

The zoo asked Kleinert to be the baby's godmother because "she showed
enormous interest in the mother's last baby, which ended up dying
tragically," Zuehlke said.

Visitors already can see the new arrival, one of the zoo's six gorillas.

The baby is Gana's third. Her first child, a female born in 2007, now
lives at the Stuttgart zoo.