about doing your home work and have the gumption to make phone calls. if you have an advocate, a family member, dedicate the time to do this for you. i have been in situations where i have been asked to do this for people. the schedule, the kids, you don t have the time to cut through the red tape for weeks and weeks and weeks. find someone who can dedicate the time that you need to you to be able to do it. administrators will put you on a loop. you have to stay on it. that is for sure. up next, an adorable baby gorilla getting plenty of love. but little gladys needs several surrogate moms and an abc news correspondent. why it is taking a village to raise this child. you are watching world news now. announcer: world news now continues after this from our abc stations.
now monkeys don t monkey around they say it is love that makes a family. this morning an example of that is at the cincinnati zoo. check this out, tiny gorilla, gladys whose mother rejected her as a new surrogate mom. she has a few surrogate moms right now including abc s matt gutman. reporter: in the zoological world this is cause for celebration. she is peeing on me. when gladys s gorilla mother rejected her last month there was a chance she wouldn t make it. well, we ll have to change into some scrubs, matt, black scrubs, simulates gorilla skin color. ron evans and his team of ten surrogate gorilla moms would nurse, cradle, teach and mother this gorilla for three months before sending her to a real
they say it is love that makes a family. this morning an example of that is at the cincinnati zoo. check this out, tiny gorilla, gladys whose mother rejected her as a new surrogate mom. she has a few surrogate moms right now including abc s matt gutman. reporter: in the zoological world this is cause for celebration. she is peeing on me. when gladys s gorilla mother rejected her last month there was a chance she wouldn t make it. well, we ll have to change into some scrubs, matt, black scrubs, simulates gorilla skin color. ron evans and his team of ten surrogate gorilla moms would nurse, cradle, teach and mother this gorilla for three months before sending her to a real gorilla mom. inside gladys room evans teaches me how to be a surrogate.
the only way gladys new gorilla family will accept her if humans can teach her to become a real gorilla. you don t coo to baby gorillas. no i talk to them like this. i use a gorilla accent when i talk to gladys. first time i see her, i talk like gladys. reporter: all the surrogates wear this faux fur. that looks more like a sheep s suit. are we turning into lambs here. careful not to baby this baby. yanking the hair. might put fingernails in her head. when she is awake she doesn t mind. they re tough. reporter: all of this. the grabbing. these hands are so strong. piggyback ride mimic real gorillas. the goal is to match gladys born at a texas zoo with a gorilla mother born here in cincinnati. but there is a chance this elaborate experiment might not work.
gorilla mom. inside gladys room evans teaches me how to be a surrogate. the only way gladys new gorilla family will accept her if humans can teach her to become a real gorilla. you don t coo to baby gorillas. no i talk to them like this. i use a gorilla accent when i talk to gladys. first time i see her, i talk like gladys. reporter: all the surrogates wear this faux fur. that looks more like a sheep s suit. are we turning into lambs here. careful not to baby this baby. yanking the hair. might put fingernails in her head. when she is awake she doesn t mind. they re tough. reporter: all of this. the grabbing. these hand are so strong. piggyback ride mimic real gorillas. the goal is to match gladys born at a texas zoo with a gorilla mother born here in cincinnati. but there is a chance this elaborate experiment might not