with her until we can get her up here to go to a surrogate mom, but until we get to that point we have to do everything with gladys that a mother gorilla would be doing with gladys at the right age, very important stuff. ron, it means when you go to work every day you are pretty much a gorilla. you are acting like a gorilla mother. what specifically are you doing to mimic a gorilla besides the lovely vest you re wearing. that s right. we have a team of about ten people that are actually gorilla mothers that are trained to behave properly with gladys, but we wear faux fur vests so she can grip, we do gorilla vocalizations, they have a lot of different vocalizations, so we have to imitate those sounds so gladys is used to that and, for instance, we ll talk to her in a nice way and it s called a belch vocalization, it kind of goes and that s very soothing. it sounds kind of scary, but it s very soothing to a gorilla, you know? we also have to teach gladys how to ride on her back,
gorilla mothers trained to behave properly with gladys. we wear faux fur vests so she can grip, we do gorilla vocalizations, so we have to imitate those sounds so gladys is used to that, and for instance, we ll talk to her in a nice way and it s called a belch vocalization, kind of goes and it sounds scary but it s soothing to a gorilla. we also have to teach gladys how to ride on our back, how to cling to our abdomens and ride just like they would with a mother gorilla. at the same time she lives with the other gorillas. they can see her, she smells them. she is in the gorilla area learning how to be a gorilla. we take her through all of the gorilla spaces she ll share beforehand, the other gorillas get to touch her and smell her through a mesh that we call it, an introduction mesh, all leading up to oh probably