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New Mom and Zoo Gorilla Sweetly Bond Over Their Babies in Viral Video

New Mom and Zoo Gorilla Sweetly Bond Over Their Babies in Viral Video

New Mom and Zoo Gorilla Sweetly Bond Over Their Babies in Viral Video

It’s the universal language of motherly love.

A Boston zoo-goer proved that the maternal bond transcends species after she and a mother gorilla held up their babies for each other to see. A YouTube video of the magical encounter — just in time for Mother’s Day — has gone viral online.

“I was just in awe,” Emmily Austin told News Center Maine of the interspecies playdate, which was filmed by her husband Michael. The Maine resident was visiting the Franklin Park Zoo with her 5-month-old son Canyon recently when they caught the attention of a Western Lowland gorilla named Kiki.

“She kept looking around the corner of the cave, and I was like, ‘She’s looking at Canyon,’” said Austin, adding that the intrigued simian spent five minutes gesturing and gazing “lovingly” at the tyke from her enclosure.

Austin couldn’t figure out why until Kiki scooped up her own son, a 7-month-old named Pablo, and held him up to the glass, the NBC affiliate reported. Along with Pablo, Kiki also has four daughters.

The two then proceeded to show each other their baby boys through the partition like mothers at a postpartum party. At one point, Kiki even tried to pet Canyon’s face through the glass and “hold his hand,” according to an awestruck Austin.

“Her face was just so in love,” gushed the adoring mother. “She was showing her baby, my baby.”

And while Canyon reportedly slept through the encounter, his mom hopes to return to the zoo so the gal pals can revel in their mutual motherhood again.

“When I walked into the zoo that day, I never could’ve imagined that we’d have this experience,” she said.

Read more about this sweet story here!

(Photo courtesy of  Michael Austin/YouTube)

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