and she s not our pet. she s a gorilla, primates make terrible pets and unfortunately there s a lot of them out there in people s hands, so that s not the message we re trying to impart here. the message we re trying to impart is gorillas should be with gorillas and that s the day we ll be happiest when gladys goes in with her new gorilla surrogate mom. so cute, right? that was ron evans pry mat team leader of cincinnati zoo. march madness roars on, but look who is on tap for next season. coming up, the story of a unique kid from the south side of chicago who is on his way to a program in the south. neutrogena® rapid wrinkle repair has the fastest retinol formula. to visibly reduce fine lines and wrinkles in just one week. neutrogena®. are you flo? yes. is this the thing you gave my husband? well, yeah, yes. the name your price tool. you tell us the price you want to pay, and we give you a range of options to choose from.
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vest here. tell us about this. well, this is one of the faux furs that we ve had made for us by a local place called fabulous furs here in cincinnati to help simulate the way a gorilla feels for gladys. you eventually want to get a gorilla mother to adopt her. how does this work? i mean, will she ever be released into the wild or is this just a mother in captivity? no. gorillas in zoos stay in zoos and gorillas in the wild stay in the wild these days, so our goal is not to put her in the wild but it s to get her back in with a gorilla mother. the day a gorilla is born they have to learn, oh, about 13 different vocalizations and a lot of different facial expressions and body postures, there s a lot of rules of etiquette in gorilla society, so from day one they are learning a language, they are learning a social structure and life lessons, so in the absence of a mother doing this and unfortunately her mother didn t take care of her, but the people down at gladys porter zoo in brown
at ly at sea world this morning. meet gladys. hey, gladys. she s 2 months owed, moved from texas to cincinnati, ohio. they re dressing up as gorillas and caring for her as surrogate mothers. one of her caretakers the leader, ron evans. good to have you. i see you wearing a snazzy vest here. tell us about this. well, this is one of the faux furs we ve had made for us by a local place called fabulous furs here in scincinnati to simulate the way a gorilla feels for gladys. you want to get a gorilla mother to adapt her. will she ever be released into the wild or is this a mother in captivity? no, gorillas in zoos stay in zoos and gorillas in the wild
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,