Jameela was born four to six weeks early at the Fort Worth Zoo after her mother, Sekani, a 33-year-old Western Lowland Gorilla, began showing signs of preeclampsia and required an emergency C-section.
Baby gorilla 'Jameela' was born prematurely via C-section at the Fort Worth Zoo. Despite efforts to reunite the newborn primate with her birth mother, Jameela faced multiple rejections.