yes, mother, for this gorilla for three months before she's introduced to her surrogate mother. orm themselves into gorillas every day. the idea being the only way gladys' new gorilla family will accept her is if humans can teach her how to become a gorilla. paying careful attention to every detail, including a lot of faux fur. >> you look very conan barbarian. >> this is our gorilla coat. it's very critical to this proce process. obviously little gorillas know to hold on to hair. >> do you coo? >> no, i uls use gorilla accent. >> reporter: evan instructs me to put on my own ape suit. turns more like a sheep. evans is careful not to baby this baby. >> i groom her just like a gorilla. i'm yanking the hair. i'm putting my fingernails in her head. the mothers do it. when she goes in with the mom, she's going to do that to her and we don't want that to be the first time she experiences that. >> reporter: after a nap, gladys wakes and gets curious. and my sur go aheadcy training kicks into high gear. i'm told i have to try to sound like a gorilla to help soothe gladys. >> she's gettin

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you are acting like a gorilla mother. mimic a gorilla besides the lovely vest you're wearing. >> that's right. >> we have a team of about ten people that are actually gorilla mothers that are trained to behave properly with gladys, but we wear faux fur vests so she can grip, we do gorilla vocalizations, they have a lot of different vocalizations, so we have to imitate those sounds so gladys is used to that and, for instance, we'll talk to her in a nice way and it's called a belch vocalization, it kind of goes -- and that's very soothing. it sounds kind of scary, but it's very soothing to a gorilla, you know? we also have to teach gladys how to ride on her back, how to cling to our abdomens and ride just like they would with a mother gorilla, at the same time she lives right there with the other gorillas, they can see her and she can see them, she smells them. we don't raise her in a nursery ward, he's in the gorilla ward, learning how to be a gorilla, the other gorillas get to touch her and smell her through a mesh, an in

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the goal is to match gladys born at a texas zoo with a gorilla mother born here in cincinnati. chance this elaborate experiment might not work. >> the day she goes in with the gorilla mom is the day i am going to be happiest. there won't be a dry eye in the place. >> reporter: as every parent learns, sometimes success means letting go. matt gutman, abc news, cincinnati. >> okay. i want one of those. i want one of those. >> i can't get over how cute. matt did a good job. would you get in there? >> with a baby gorilla. with mama maybe not so much. >> how about that? >> there you go. there is the surrogate mom. >> take gladys home tonight. >> don't think i make a convincing gorilla. >> i have seen you in that thing running around as a commercial break. come coming right back. break. we're coming right back. lean. it's scary how much dirt your vacuum can leave behind. add resolve deep clean powder before you vacuum to expel the dirt within your carpets. resolve's deep clean powder is moist. absorbing and lifting three times more dirt than vacuuming alone. leaving you with a carpet

. >>> humans at the cincinnati zoo are going to great lengths to raise a baby gorilla abandoned by its mother. they make gorilla sounds to make that baby feel loved and right at home. baby gladys is growing fast. she is nearly ready to walk on all fours. who will will eventually hopefully raise her. she was born to a first-time mother who had no idea how to be a mom. >> she loves that piggyback ride. gladys. >> what a great name. so cute! the easter bunny will also be out and about this weekend. >> yes. >> we'll get a little bit of rainfall and it won't be a problem for the easter bunny. we'll see chance of showers for saturday and the heaviest with the rainfall with the storm system will be on sunday and also a possibility of isolated thunderstorms and temperatures will cool off into the upper 60s and we'll have a few showers lingering for monday. keep the umbrella g= nearby. >> see you at 6:00. >>> on our broadcast tonight, nuclear threats from the 28-year-old leader of north korea, ordering missiles ready to strike. our team has reached the heavily fortified border between north and south

the baby gorilla orphaned by her mother. tonight our reporter putting on the gorilla suit to show off -- show us what it takes to become a gorilla mom. >>> good evening. we begin with a startling medical headline, a trip to the dentist creating a frightening prospect for 7,000 people in tulsa, oklahoma. people urged to get tested for a host of serious diseases, including hiv, hepatitis. health officials say they may have been exposed by their veteran dentist, a trusted man in their community. how could it happen? abc's david wright has the details. >> reporter: dr. w. scott harrington has been practicing oral surgery for 36 years -- most recently in this tulsa, oklahoma, medical building. but authorities are now concerned that he may have exposed thousands of patients to potentially deadly infections. >> the instruments that came out of the autoclave were horrible. i wouldn't let my nephews play with them out in the dirt. they were horrible. they had rust on them. >> reporter: authorities say letters will be sent tomorrow to

good morning, ron. >> good morning, anthony. >> how tricky is this for a human to replace a gorilla motheroup. they're going to want to make gorilla sounds going ooh, ooh. holding it or treating it like a human baby would be counterproductive. >> how does this work? human beings can't treat the gorilla like a human being. what does treating it like a gorilla look like? >> it's a little different. they're -- they may wear black sweaters, black outfits so the gorilla is used to being behind that black fur. it's going to get used to getting passed off, getting taken care of by different people so when it's time to get transferred off it's going to be another transfer. it's not that stressful for a baby. we've raise add lot in the past. we avoid doing that at all costs unless the mother has rejektsed it. the reason she was probably rejected was its mother was not raised in great environment and mother didn't learn to be a good mother. just like with human beings. being a good mother is a learned behavior. if the primate was not raised well, she grows up to not be a good moe. >> ron, quickly, i

. >>> look at this face, can you believe a mother could reject this baby gorilla? ing raised by ten human surrogates until the cincinnati zoo finds gladys a new mother. later we'll introduce you to one of her surrogates, ron evans at 8:50 a.m. eastern time. >>> an unusual guest found his way into a five-star resort in southern california. rescue crew from sea world was called to the hotel after a dehydrated california sea lion decided it needed rest and relaxation, sitting there at the bar waiting for a drink. the guests there didn't seem to mind and the sea lion relaxed until the net showed up. >>> a daring photographer had to apologize for the breathtaking views of egypt's pyramids. he and his friends broke the law and secretly scaled it from overnight. images lit up from awe to anger. >>> this is a favorite. he's dressed in pajama pants, stocking cap on his head, usually you cut the legs off. showed up, forgets to pull down the mask. then he comes back, throws a rock, oh, no, then breaks a window, then he runs, ten feet, falls down, still out there somewhere. thi

animal specialists are working around the clock now as human surrogates to nurse a newborn baby gorilla. her mothert and rejected her. she was transfered to a cincinnati skoo. a group of 10 humans took over, wearing gorilla suits and imitate gorilla behavior. the people teaching her to roll ofrks sit up and walk on all fours. >> as much as i like holding gladys the day she gos in with a gorilla mom is the day i'm going to be happiest. >> how cute. the specialists are preparing for a transition and have been showing gladys to other gorillas and letting them touch her, they think she will be ready within just months. >> what an interesting concept and makes sense. >> that works. >> this about five years, she's getting the camera back with a free trip to taiwan. >> lindsay skalon lost her camera during a scuba diving trip in 2007. several years later 6,000 miles away the camera washed up on a beach in taiwan. sthil intact. >> an employee ofym china airlines found the cram, and found pictures and they can tell it was hawaii to see if they can find the owner. to get it back to the mystery blonde woman.

and a wonderful story here, no more adorable, a baby gorilla whose mother could not care for her a teamts dress as gorillas working as they prepare her for a reintroduction to the wild and a look that we got. a wonderful, wonderful story. >> and a follow-up today, a story we first heard yesterday, a restaurant in los angeles that was shaming no shows when they did not call to cancel and an ourer speaking out and he was conflicted about what he did and we all way in, a robust discussion to get to, all next, right here on "good morning america" next. >> josh, great do see you. take it easy. >> see you later. >> the highly anticipated google glasses could be bringing new manufacturing jobs to the silicon valley. the financial times reports the wearable device is assembled in santa clara at a factory one by a taiwan-based company known for making iphones and ipads, a major boost for u.s. electronics manufacturing. in recent years tech companies have assembled products in asia. this week, google started notifying winners of the contest to test the glasses and they will pay $1,500 to test dri

several zoo keepers are playing the role of primate mother to a baby gorilla in ohio. born at a zoo in texas. biological mother showed almost no interest in caring for it they brought it to the zoo in

gorilla. and the adorable 2-month-old was rejected by her mother in texas. group of human surrogates until a gorilla assumes the role of surrogate mother. gladys and the primate team leader rob evans are here this morning. gladys you are the best, prettiest guest we've ever had here on "early start." thank you so much for joining us this morning. so, rod, explain -- >> we're happy to be here. >> i assume that gladys can't answer my question. how did gladys end up in your care? >> well, you know, she was born at the gladys porter zoo, hence the name gladys. and her mother was a first-time mom and unfortunately didn't take care of her from birth. that happens sometimes because gorillas have to learn a lot of skills they need to know like maternal care. the gladys zoo did an excellent job taking care of her themselves but didn't have any options for a surrogate mom there because all their other gorillas had babies themselves. so we all got together, cincinnati, gladys porter, the gorilla species survival plan which manages gorillas in north america, looked for t

the cincinnati zoo are hoping this odd-looking experiment might save an orphaned gorilla days after she was born. her mothereighing just 3 pounds gladys was as fragile as a human infant. she needed a mother to adopt her but her zoo in texas didn't have one. the cincinnati zoo did. abc news got exclusive access to the project in which ten human surrogates would prepare gladys to be united with a new gorilla momma. and you could call ron evans the ape mom in chief and leads us inside her pad where a little gorilla 101 is used. >> i always use a gorilla accent like glad giysgladys. put your head through the hole. >> reporter: one needs to look the part. all wear these fur vests and after gladys got used to me a handover. make a little gorilla vocalization. gladys spends most of her time sleeping, eating and -- well, she just peed on me. all of this, the stretching, the grabbing, tasting things, the piggy back rides is to prep gladys to join the rest of the gorillas, a process she called goril gorillafication. it's just a month or two away. feels like having a baby on me. good girl. the baby. after spending a d

is the gorilla" but her surrogate us, wearing black to resemble her mom, are actually stretching her arms, just like you see hasani here. doing tummy time is something gladys' biological mothereck muscles. and this tender hold, all part of preparing gladys for her new ride, adoptive mom's back, just like in the wild. and for that, gladys' six surrogates in ohio will wear these black hair vests. but you won't hear any cooing. >> gorilla calming sound is more like -- >> reporter: that's ron mcgill of the miami zoo. he says baby abandonment isn't unusual. >> it's not uncommon at all to be rejected. because they have not been raised in an environment that's shown them to be a good mother. >> reporter: the idea is to mother gladys until her more hair suit mom takes her in. matt gutman, abc news, miami. >> and we always have more for you at abcnews.com. don't forget, "nightline" later at its new time, 12:35 a.m. eastern. and it great to begin the week with you. see you again tomorrow. >>> tonight a standoff with the coast guard ends in three arrests. >> a neighborhood in peril from a broken water main. a major sink hole developing under two homes and others could be off limb writs

gorilla, please be kind and gentle. baby gladys was brought to the cincinnati zoo after she was abandoned by her mother in texas, right? hs she will be raised by humans, playing the role of mommy gorilla. zoo volunteers are wearing black suits and furry vests to mimic what gladys' mom would feel and look like. i don't have to do that. okay. double-checking. all of this so that one day soon gladys will be introduced to a gorilla surrogate mom and they will live happily ever after. if you have any spare gorilla suits laying around at home and you're near the stet cincinnati zoo, you may be called upon. >> you may assist. >> yes. >> look at me, already doling out advice like i've been doing this for years. >> gorilla advice no years. >> oh, i'm spanning across the species right now. what does that mean? >> quote of the day, spanning across the species. jenna, thanks. >>> dylan dreyer is out on the plaza with a check of our forecast. good morning. >> good morning. we have annie out here. when you have a sign that says can i please help you with the weather, i will say yes. when the map comes up, you're going to tell me what