The brothers - Kesho, 13, and younger brother, Alf, 9 - had not seen each other for two years after being separated in 2010 so that Kesho, a silverback gorilla, could be part of a breeding program at the London Zoo, the BBC reports.
When Kesho proved to be infertile, the brothers were given a second chance to live together.
PHOTOS: Kesho and Alf's Joyful Reunion
Both gorillas were sent to the Longleat Safari Park in Wiltshire, England, to live in the park's new nearly $5 million gorilla enclosure built to house the over-population of males in the breeding program.
Their reunion, all captured on camera, was one for the family record books. Kesho and Alf put on a display of hugs, shoulder slaps, squeezes and general all-out affection once they saw each other.
"They were touching each other through the cage that temporarily separated them," Longleat zookeeper Mark Tye said, according to the UK's Daily Mail. "We put them together 24 hours later and it was like they had never been apart."
Yes Debra, so am I. It was wonderful seeing the photos of them showing just how happy they were to be reunited. Hope you have a wonderful weekend. :)
Quote: That's so cool! I'm really impressed that the facilities showed the compassion to reunite them.Deb
I'm sure you animal lovers will love this! :)
Babies grow up healthier with dogs in the home: report
By Eric Pfeiffer, Yahoo! News | The Sideshow – Mon, Aug 13, 2012
Don't mind me, I'm just helping to inoculate your child against respiratory infections. (KDKA)
There is emerging science that children who grow up in households that have dogs as pets have fewer respiratory illnesses than those who grow up without dogs.
The claim is made in a new study conducted by University Hospital in Finland and published in Pediatrics, the journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
"I think a number of these studies are really telling us there's not a reason to kick the dog out of the house and it actually might be a good thing for a baby to be born into the home," said Dr. Todd Mahr, who chairs the American Academy of Pediatrics' section on allergy and immunology, in an interview with the Chicago Tribune.
The health benefit is believed to derive from when dogs expose children to safe, low-levels of bacteria and germs, helping to inoculate them against more serious illnesses.
The study followed 397 children through the first year of their lives.
Study results showed that young children who grew up with a dog in the home were "healthy" 81 percent of the time, compared with 64 percent for children who grew up without dogs.
Cats were also shown to have a beneficial health effect on young babies, but to a lesser degree than dogs.