Celebrating Cekiri 🫶 On this day last year, our Chimpanzee Keepers arrived in the early morning to find the Chimpanzee community surrounding Ceres who had just given birth to a precious female infant, Cekiri. Over the last year, Cekiri has grown in leaps and bounds, and is a much-loved member of our 21-strong Chimpanzee community. We want to highlight Ceres’ dedicated mothering and delighted to celebrate Cekiri’s first lap around the sun💫☀️ 🌳 This milestone provides a wonderful opportunity to

#stitch with @The Mindful Birth Group® PMID: 36096082 Lotus birth is the practice of leaving the umbilical cord and placenta attached to newborn until natural detachment from the umbilicus. This practice was named after Clair Lotus who observed that chimpanzee did not separate the placenta from the newborn. The data on epidemiology of Lotus birth is lacking despite being practiced in several places around the world, notably with home deliveries. Despite absence of scientific evidence, several re

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