Bali Zoo welcomes rare newborn baby gibbon

Just when we were starting to think Bali news was all dead bodies and mischevious teenagers this week, we were overjoyed to hear that Bali Zoo has welcomed in a new life. 

Posting to their Facebook account yesterday, the zoo announced the birth of a rare silvery gibbon and shared pictures of the newborn nursing.

 

 

BREAKING NEWS: Minul gave a birth to rare baby silvery gibbon this morning and she has been proficiently nursing the…

Posted by BALI ZOO on Wednesday, May 27, 2015

The silvery gibbon can only be found naturally in Java, but has been put on the endangered species list due to its shrinking forest habitat, according to the Silvery Gibbon Project

Selamat datang di Bali little monkey!

Photo at the top: Flickr




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