Newborn Gorilla at Toronto Zoo

[Catherine]

The little baby is safer born at the zoo. He will never be threatened by poachers and loss of habitat. He will live longer and have good medical care. Charles, his father, is an orphan and he only survived because he was flown from Africa to Canada and raised at the Toronto Zoo. Sadly the ideal of animals living free exists in so few places.

I suppose we could think of animals raised in Zoos and sanctuaries as a type of refugee. Life in exile is still life and it can be happy and fulfilling.