hasani's first birthday is today.is mother. but he has had a bit of a rough journey since then with the keepers on hand to help him on the way. you have been there throughout it. tell me what has happened. it has been an interesting year, let's say, a challenging year for all of us and hasani. when he was first born, he seemed to be doing very well. his mum seemed to be coping very well. but over the first four to five weeks we saw a bit of a deterioration in his condition, he was looking a bit weak, he wasn't feeding as well. her mothering style became a little bit neglectful. she would put him down, she wasn't carrying him properly and those sorts of things. we did lots of interventions to try to speed them up and keep them together but it wasn't working. so we did hand rear him. after about six to eight months we felt he was ready to try a reintroduction with his mother. that, unfortunately, wasn't successful. but we had a plan b up our sleeve and that was a surrogate mother, another female in our group and she too