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May 05, 1967 - First Baby Gibbon Ape Ever To Be Born In Natural Surrounding In Britain.: The first baby Gibbon Ape ever to be born in natural surrounding in Britain, looks at the world this week from its birthplace, 60ft high in the trees of Paington Zoo, Devon. Officials are calling the ape Windy because they could not believe that its mother was pregnant and they thought she was suffering from gripe. The Zoo Manager, Mr; Brick Francis said: We are most excited and regard this as first in the zoological world. A few have been born inages, but this is believed to be the first baby Gibbon in the world to be born in natural surrounding outside its normal habitat of the Far East where they came from.'. This Week, Mother Sally, aged nine, swung from the high trees on an island in the zoo with Windy clinging to her body.Occasionally father came to have an admiring look. The apes have live in complete freedom on the island for seven years, winter and summer, untohed by any of the keepers, who wade across the moat to give them food of bananas and apples.Photo shows Windy the baby Gibbon Ape born in Paington Zoo with its mother, high up in the tress
