Gladys The Gorilla Adorably Celebrates Her First Birthday

Gladys was abandoned by her birth mother and hand-raised by zookeepers, but her surrogate mothers have taken great care of her!

Gladys celebrated her 1st birthday with a delicious cake, which she graciously shared.

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This cake was made with "two layers of rice, raisin, banana, sweet potato, and biscuits, topped with pureed banana and sweet potato, and decorated with a variety of fruit, including pomegranates, lemons and grapes."

She shared her treat with female adult gorillas who have stepped in to be her surrogate mothers.

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Gladys was abandoned by her own mother after she was born, so keepers at the Gladys Porter Zoo and Cincinatti Zoo hand-raised her. She's doing so well now!

She knows it's totally ok to just stick your face right in your birthday cake.

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Finger-lickin' good! Happy birthday, Gladys!

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