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A Gibbon Who Lived Alone in Her Cage Had a Baby. Japanese Zookeepers Finally Know How
CNN ^ | Fri February 10, 2023 | Xiaofei Xu, Philip Wang and Junko Ogura

Posted on 02/11/2023 9:43:00 AM PST by nickcarraway

Japanese zookeepers believe they have solved the mystery of how a gibbon became pregnant despite living alone in her cage.

Momo, a 12-year-old white-handed gibbon, shocked her keepers at the Kujukushima Zoo and Botanical Garden in Nagasaki in February 2021 when she gave birth despite having no known male companionship.

Now two years later, following a DNA test on her baby, the zoo has worked out who the father is – and even has a theory about how the gibbons mated. The test showed the father to be Itō, a 34-year-old agile gibbon, who was in an adjacent enclosure to Momo around the time she became pregnant.

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TOPICS: Local News; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: ape; gibbon; zoo
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To: norcal joe

Hahaha...now we know!


21 posted on 02/11/2023 11:18:08 AM PST by rlmorel ("If you think tough men are dangerous, just wait until you see what weak men are capable of." JBP)
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To: PIF

Oh my god, I think you have the post of the day.

Zoos are a business.


22 posted on 02/11/2023 11:18:32 AM PST by Celerity
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To: KC_Conspirator

I guess it is the illicit, unsanctioned kind of sex they enjoy the best!

Humans...take note! There might be a lesson to learn here. Or not.


23 posted on 02/11/2023 11:20:03 AM PST by rlmorel ("If you think tough men are dangerous, just wait until you see what weak men are capable of." JBP)
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To: nickcarraway

During WW2 German POWs were in a camp in Fond du Lac Wisconsin. Local Wisconsin girls would back up to the fence to service those lonely German boys. The Germans loved Wisconsin. It was very much like their home in Germany and a lot of Wisconsinites were of German origin.


24 posted on 02/11/2023 11:39:10 AM PST by Venkman (,)
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To: nickcarraway

Almost afraid to click on this story. The zookeeper?

But glad it’s that wonderful gibbon.


25 posted on 02/11/2023 11:50:34 AM PST by Veto! (FJB Sucks Rocks)
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To: nickcarraway

Japanese zoo solves mystery of isolated gibbon’s pregnancy

02/07/2023 11:36:41 AM PST · by Red Badger · 47 replies
UPI ^ | FEB. 3, 2023 / 3:52 PM | By Ben Hooper

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4129275/posts


26 posted on 02/11/2023 12:27:39 PM PST by Paal Gulli
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To: Venkman

Do you have a credible link ?


27 posted on 02/11/2023 1:36:02 PM PST by RWGinger (LGB)
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To: RWGinger

https://www.fdlreporter.com/story/news/2019/04/01/how-wisconsinites-and-german-pows-built-separate-peace-wwii-history/3018353002/

“ For some women, interactions with the POWs went further. Edward Uecker, who guarded prisoners at a camp in Waupun, witnessed women “backing up to the fence,” and POWs “having their way with them” he said in interviews with Daniels.”


28 posted on 02/11/2023 1:53:02 PM PST by Venkman (,)
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To: RWGinger

I got the camp wrong. It was Waupun. Interesting article though.


29 posted on 02/11/2023 1:54:55 PM PST by Venkman (,)
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To: nickcarraway

Well, I don’t think we can blame it totally on the male Gibbon. The female apparently cooperated in this endeavor!


30 posted on 02/11/2023 1:57:31 PM PST by CFW (old and retired)
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To: Venkman

Thanks
I guess human nature will prevail


31 posted on 02/11/2023 3:00:53 PM PST by RWGinger (LGB)
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To: Venkman

Women are disgusting. There was an old saying “every girl loves a Fascist”. And there it is. Every scumbag, murderer, Nazi, gangbanger, rapist, Amish thug you name it…women are lining up legs spread. This is the basest of human instincts, and far too many women are prone to this madness. It is becoming more and more common as modernity “progresses”.


32 posted on 02/11/2023 3:55:40 PM PST by libertarian66
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To: FroggyTheGremlim

And how do you know that?


33 posted on 02/11/2023 4:43:20 PM PST by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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To: PIF

Okay, thanks.


34 posted on 02/11/2023 4:43:59 PM PST by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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To: Bigg Red

He told me.


35 posted on 02/12/2023 12:07:27 PM PST by FroggyTheGremlim (I'll be good, I will, I will!)
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