This is certainly unusual.

Despite birth control steps taken among its residents, all retired, Chimp Haven is home to a newborn.

Teresa, a wild-born chimpanzee in her late 40s, delivered a baby girl Jan. 8, Chimp Haven announced Tuesday, eight days after the birth.
Mother and daughter, named Tracy, are alert and well.

The father's identity is unknown. All male chimpanzees receive vasectomies before they arrive at the sanctuary in southwest Caddo. A Chimp Haven news release dated Tuesday says information for paternity testing is being gathered "to determine who the father is, so that we can address the vasectomy failure immediately."

Is this Jurassic Park redux? Or something more miraculous – “unto us a chimp is born, unto us a monkey is given”? Or maybe they just need to DNA test all the zookeepers.

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