Sept. 24--Both Chicago-area zoos announced primate births Wednesday, Brookfield with a western lowland gorilla born on Wednesday and Lincoln Park with a black-and-white colobus monkey born Sept. 15.
The gorilla, sex still to be determined, was born to 11-year-old Kamba, a first-time mother born and raised at Brookfield, the zoo said.
The sire is JoJo, 35, a former Lincoln Park Zoo gorilla moved to the west suburban animal park in 2012 at the behest of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums' Species Survival Plan for western lowland gorillas. Their pairing was recommended by the SSP, which manages captive populations.
The colobus baby, also still unsexed, marks the first successful breeding of the species at Lincoln Park since the animal's mother, Kutaka, was born in 2004, Lincoln Park officials said.
It is also on exhibit with its father, 21-year-old Keanjaha, and two other adult colobus at the Helen Brach Primate House. That breeding also occurred under the watchful eye of a Species Survival Plan.
