Netizens identify with video of gorilla’s refusal to play with young one

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Many netizens who are parents commented on the video saying they found it “totally relatable”. Here’s how netizens reacted to it:

Born to parents — Gracie and Elmo, Gus was zoo’s first-ever born Western lowland gorilla in its 107-year history. This isn’t even the first video of Gus that has been widely shared on social media.

According to the zoo’s website, “Western lowland gorillas are listed as critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) due to hunting and disease. Gorillas also have an alarmingly low reproductive rate (at an observed rate of 3 percent population increase), so even if there was a drastic decline in hunting and disease, it could take at least 75 years for population recovery to occur in optimistic scenarios.”