In India, an orphaned baby gibbon lost her mother to electrocution and found comfort in a plush ape

In India, an orphaned baby gibbon lost her mother to electrocution and found comfort in a plush ape

In Assam, India, an orphaned baby western hoolock gibbon is recovering after her mother was killed by electrocution, and one of the clearest signs of her healing is the plush ape she now carries for comfort. It is a tender image, but it also points to a much larger conservation problem facing India's only ape species. What happened? On April 11, forest officials found a western hoolock gibbon infant, estimated to be only three to four weeks old,…