--- title: Baby Gorilla Born Through Cesarian Section at San Diego Zoo description: Luckily the baby is doing just fine canonical: https://time.com/24851/baby-gorilla-born-through-c-section/ author: TIME Video article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-03-14T14:34:53.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:07:48.037Z og:title: Watch Adorable Baby Gorilla's First Moments og:description: Even an emergency delivery via c-section couldn't stop this gorilla from being cute og:url: https://time.com/24851/baby-gorilla-born-through-c-section/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8b2de6d96ea250e9/6986856e35ba6f1160c00f8c/tout12804.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: San Diego Zoo Welcomes Baby Gorilla Through C-Section og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Adorable Baby Gorilla's First Moments twitter:description: Even an emergency delivery via c-section couldn't stop this gorilla from being cute twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8b2de6d96ea250e9/6986856e35ba6f1160c00f8c/tout12804.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Baby Gorilla Born Through C-Section by [TIME Video](https://time.com/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Mar 14, 2014 2:34 PM UTC  After a rare c-section brith, the San Diego Zoo now has a new adorable baby gorilla. After a rare c-section brith, the San Diego Zoo now has a new adorable baby gorilla. by [TIME Video](https://time.com/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Mar 14, 2014 2:34 PM UTC The San Diego Zoo couldn’t wait for their 18-year-old gorilla Imani to deliver her new baby, but she was making little progress in labor. So instead the baby was delivered by caesarian section, a rarity for gorillas. 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. Only a gorilla that cute can rock the knit cap-oxygen mask look. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/24851/baby-gorilla-born-through-c-section/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/24851/baby-gorilla-born-through-c-section/"},"headline":"Baby Gorilla Born Through C-Section","datePublished":"2014-03-14T14:34:53.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:07:48.037Z","description":"Luckily the baby is doing just fine","url":"https://time.com/24851/baby-gorilla-born-through-c-section/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8b2de6d96ea250e9/6986856e35ba6f1160c00f8c/tout12804.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Video","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-video/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8b2de6d96ea250e9/6986856e35ba6f1160c00f8c/tout12804.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"San Diego Zoo Welcomes Baby Gorilla Through C-Section","caption":"After a rare c-section brith, the San Diego Zoo now has a new adorable baby gorilla.","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/24851/baby-gorilla-born-through-c-section/","name":"Baby Gorilla Born Through C-Section"}}]}] ```