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February 12th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
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Allan Hall
Last updated at 1:24 PM on 11th February 2012
A baby chimpanzee has found a new mother in a zoo in Germany after she was rejected by her own.
Three-week-old female Nayla’s adoption by another chimp at Osnabruek Zoo, north-west Germany, shows the high level of nurturing and maternal instincts of man’s closest animal cousins.
More importantly, for a bewildered and lost little mite, it means that Nayla will not have to be raised by human hand but can live among her own.
Nurturing: Baby chimpanzee Nayla clings to her adoptive mother, Vanessa, at the zoo in Osnabrueck, Germany, yesterday
Nayla was born at Osnabrueck Zoo three weeks ago, but her mother, Vakanga, 17, rejected her at the weekend, casting her aside in her enclosure.
Normally this would have meant instant intervention on the part of zookeepers if he was to survive.
But, before they could step in, zoo staff witnessed something remarkable. A eight-year-old male called Kume stepped in as a surrogate father to the abandoned infant.
Keepers watched as he lovingly groomed the orphaned chimp and carried her around like females do.
Wolfgang Festl, in charge of the primates at the zoo, said: ‘We saw at the weekend that she was on her own. And then just hours later she was being cared for by Kume.’
For an entire day the zoo staff watched what was taking place at the colony, where 10 chimps live together.
Mr Festl said: ‘Throughout the day Kume was grooming the baby, walking around with him and even stuck his finger in his mouth to keep him quiet – like a dummy.’
Safe: Baby Nayla can now grow up among her own kind without intervention from zoo staff
Not ready for motherhood: Nayla’s birth mother, Vakanga, who rejected the infant when she was three weeks old
Zoo inspector Hans-Jürgen Schröder
and director Dr Susanne Klomburg hoped Vakanga would take Nayla back
because, helpful though Kume was, he could not feed his new daughter.
Dr Klomburg said: ‘If that failed, we hoped we could give a bottle to the baby if Kume sat near the bars.
‘Chimps learn through observation and if we had more time we could have showed Kume what we wanted to do with a dummy or a doll.’
But Kume didn’t let little Nayla out of his grip for days, and she grew gradually weaker.
Then on Tuesday this week Kume finally left baby Nayla alone and staff we able to enter the enclosure and give her some much-needed milk.
And then keepers witnessed something even more extraordinary.
Nayla was picked up by a chimpanzee called Vanessa, aged 27, who put the infant on her back with her own two-year-old daughter, Lila.
Vanessa is able to feed Nayla and has been accepted as having another youngster in tow by the group – a complex and strongly hierarchical structure.
Dr Klomburg added: ‘Little Lila was a bit peeved at first having to share the attention of her mother with another. And Kume was off sleeping – being a stepdad took it out of him!’
Chimps rejecting their young is an extremely rare phenomenon – but another chimp adopting such an outcast is even more rare.
‘At least there is a happy ending to this story,’ said Dr Klomburg.
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If any of you have watched ‘Monkey Business’ on television about the ape rescue centre in Dorset you will know that adopting aanothers baby chimp is not uncommon.
Better still, visit Monkey World Ape Rescue Centre’ for yourself. It’s not a zoo and is considered the best centre in the world for the study of chimps orangs. They also have several smaller species of apes and are part of a worldwide breeding programme. They also spearhead many campaigns aimed at governments to stop the natural environment of many apes being destroyed and stopping the sale export of ‘bush meat’.
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DM has it correct – Osnabruck has an umlaut on the u. Therefore when unable to type an umlaut, it is correct in German to write ue, therefore spelling the city Osnabruek!! This then allows for the correct pronunication.
– Lisa, Towcester, 11/2/2012 17:49
Thanks Lisa, I bow to your superior knowledge; I didn’t know that. But my point still stands: Osnabruek and Osnabrueck. And do you really think think the word processing packages used by the DM can’t handle an umlaut?
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Parents should automatically not eat animals and that’s a fact. If you have no intentions of changing your ways in 2012 then it’s time to reflect on who you are.
– Stuart, Animals want to live just like us, so stop eating them., 11/2/2012 22:39
What “parents” did you have in mind? Because animal parents eat meat as well. Animal parents eat animal babies. Their own animal babies. Having said that – nice story and nice pictures.
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In Nature mothers abandon young when somehow they know something is wrong with them, like for example if this baby has an heart defect. Zoos are profoundly unnatural environments which could also explain abandonment, as well as infertility. Nonetheless, well managed zoos do provide the next generation of humans with an appreciation for wildlife as mankind encroaches on Nature world wide. While sad these particular animals are deprived of the natural life which would have been best for them, the heartwarming report of how a male acted maternal and another female nurtures a rejected baby is some sort of a lesson for all humans, if only we can figure it out. Great story. Thanks.
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Animals are amazing creatures that can teach us a lot. They are loyal friends, great companions, and beautiful to view in their natural environment. It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life. Towards this end, experiments on living animals should be stopped. To encourage cruelty in the name of science or vanity can only destroy the finer emotions of affection and sympathy, and breed an unfeeling callousness in the young towards suffering in all living creatures. Let children walk with Nature, let them see that every animal is unique and adorable, and that there is no greater love than that between a parent and her young. Parents should automatically not eat animals and that’s a fact. If you have no intentions of changing your ways in 2012 then it’s time to reflect on who you are.
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That is one cool hairstyle Nayla. Where do you get it done ?
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To Alan Rowley
DM has it correct – Osnabruck has an umlaut on the u. Therefore when unable to type an umlaut, it is correct in German to write ue, therefore spelling the city Osnabruek!! This then allows for the correct pronunication.
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Naughty Vakanga…..that is not nice!
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orphaned? or rejected? parents are still alive aren’t they?
DM reporting skills aside glad she has been taken on and how cute is she!?
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Two different attempts and you still didn’t get it right. It’s Osnabruck.
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