CHEEKY BABY GORILLA

THIS cheeky gorilla tries his best to wriggle free from his mum. After a day of being carried around, he has finally had enough as he tries to escape from her arms. These heart-warming photographs captured by Dr Michal Samuni-Blank show this doting mother Gorilla and her three week old Infant in Bronx Zoo, New York.

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