Jameela, a new baby gorilla at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo, arrived in Northeast Ohio from the Fort Worth Zoo just a few weeks ago in a fostering effort -- and zoo officials provided another update Thursday to say she “continues to do really well.”

“She’s incredibly healthy. She’s very strong,” says animal curator Dr. Elena Less in a new video update shared by the Cleveland Zoo. “We are keeping her next to the gorilla group at all times. As you saw from our last update, we saw excellent maternal behavior from Fredrika as we expected, and she picked Jameela up right away. We did find that Kayembe was being a little bit rambunctious. He’s the older toddler brother, so that’s to be expected. So we are moving slowly and making sure that Fredrika has time to bond with Jameela and that we can work on Kayembe on reinforcing positive, calm behaviors around Jameela as well.”

Dr. Less says their team has continued focus on getting Jameela to be bonded with Fredrika.

“All of her bottles she’s receiving next to Fredrika and next to Kayembe,” Dr. Less continues. “So they’re still maintaining that contact with her every time we feed her. We’re working on her strength. She’s doing tummy time. She is receiving bottles through a mesh panel, so that she’s ready for when she goes back into the group.”

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