The photo was taken on July 24, 2013 and shows VANA & TEBOGO, Western Lowland Gorillas from the Gorilla nursery of the Wilhelma, the Zoological-Botanical Garden in Stuttgart.
In April, 2016, the Dublin Zoo welcomed the arrival of the half-siblings, female Vana and male Tebogo, were born in Wuppertal Zoo, Germany, in 2012. Both gorillas share the same father but they have different mothers.
Sadly, due to lack of parenting experience, both mothers rejected the gorillas as babies. As a result, they were taken to Wilhelma Zoo in Stuttgart, where they were hand-reared for four years at his specialist gorilla nursery, which is a safe haven for orphaned or rejected gorillas.
My name is Matthias Besant and i am a designer and photographer from Frankfurt / Germany.
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