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Hogle Zoo welcomes new baby gorilla, born to first-time parents

(Photo courtesy of Hogle Zoo) A 5-pound female gorilla was born July 6 at Hogle Zoo in Salt Lake City to mother Jabali and father Husani.

(Photo courtesy of Hogle Zoo) A 5-pound female gorilla was born July 6 at Hogle Zoo in Salt Lake City to mother Jabali and father Husani.

By https://s3.amazonaws.com/arc-authors/sltrib/acea26e5-4488-4d4c-86a3-a8c662def66e.jpg Josh Newman
 | July 30, 2020, 6:30 p.m.
| Updated: 6:32 p.m.

Hogle Zoo welcomed a new resident earlier this month.

The Salt Lake City facility announced Thursday afternoon that a 5-pound baby gorilla was born July 6 to first-time mom Jabali and father Husani.

The still unnamed female baby gorilla represents the first successful birth of a western lowland gorilla in the 42-acre zoo’s 89-year history.

“This is unbelievably exciting,” ape keeper Clair Hallyburton said in a statement. “We’ve been looking forward to this for so long. We did everything we could to prepare and it’s gone better than we could have hoped.”

Zoo guests are able to visit the baby gorilla daily from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. by reserving a time slot at hoglezoo.org. Viewing will be done indoors and masks are required.

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Josh NewmanUtah athletics reporter

Josh Newman began covering the University of Utah for The Tribune in 2019. A Long Island, N.Y. native, he covered Rutgers University and Monmouth University for the Asbury Park Press in New Jersey for 15 years. Basketball remains his first love, a cold IPA coming in a close second.