It’s big news at the Los Angeles Zoo on Thursday, Sept. 25, where officials unveiled a tiny chimp girl born to 35-year-old female chimpanzee Yoshi and 26-year-old male Pu’iwa on Aug. 20, and another chimp girl born on Sept. 9 to first-time mother Vindi, 18 years old.

According to zoo animal caregivers, Yoshi and Vindi and their infants are doing well and bonding. This is Yoshi’s third baby and Pu’iwa’s first.

In a prepared statement, L.A. Zoo curator of mammals Candace Sclimenti said the births are significant, noting that the infants are “welcome additions to the dynamic, multi-male, mixed-age troop which closely mirrors the species’ natural social structure in the wild. Not only are these births vital for the well-being and social composition of the chimpanzees in our care, but they al

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