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11/13/06
Woman Is Surrogate Mom to Baby Gorillas
Posted by : Adrienne Bashista in Hoping to Adopt Blog at 03:08 pm , 150 words, 120 views
Categories: Random Thoughts
Categories: Random Thoughts
"Woman Is Surrogate Mom to Baby Gorillas"Do you know what I thought when I saw this headline? Do you know?
Yes, that's what I thought. I thought she was carrying two (or more?) baby gorillas in her uterus. And that alarmed me! Surrogacy already alarms me, but cross-species surrogacy? Gah!
Carrying another person's child in your womb, on purpose: this is what surrogate means to me. But obviously I've been reading the adoption/fertility/parenting literature too much.
Because really, she teaches the older gorillas, all born in captivity, how to be good gorilla parents. Since they never had parents, they don't know how to be parents.
Sigh. Just like people.
She teaches the young gorillas how to be babies while adult gorillas watch and learn their own roles. The hope is that the babies will grow up to be better caregivers that can look after their own young.
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