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The Zoo took every precaution to protect the full term, 4.6 lb baby supplementing their team of San Diego Zoo staff with a veterinary surgeon and human neonatal specialists from UCSD Medical Center. Due to complications from the difficult birth, the baby gorilla is being kept in the veterinary hospital, but even that couldn’t stop her from being adorable. 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