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The Los Angeles Zoo welcomed the birth of a baby gorilla, the fifth and latest addition in a recent baby boom of adorable great apes that included three chimpanzees and one orangutan.

The infant was born on Nov. 22 to a family troop of critically endangered western lowland gorillas. It has yet to be named and its gender has not been identified, but the new baby has been introduced to the public and visitors can now get a look.

This is the second offspring of 31-year-old N’djia and silverback Kelly, 38, whose daughter Angela in 2020 became the first gorilla born at the L.A. Zoo in more than 20 years.

The birth comes at an exciting time for L.A. zookeepers, who have welcomed the fiv

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