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Louisville zoo officials are expecting just the second gorilla birth in the zoo’s history in late March.

Twenty-year-old Mia Moja is pregnant with her second offspring. The baby gorilla’s father is also a resident of the Gorilla Forest, 22-year-old Mshindi.

General Curator Steve Wing says Mia hasn’t shown any pregnancy symptoms that are common to humans.

“Animals in the wild, they have to mask all these special things,” says Wing. “If they’re sick, if they’re pregnant and having – even if they feel bad – they mask it very well because that makes them prey for other things, even something as large as a gorilla.”

Wing says once the baby gorilla is born, it will likely reside in Louisville for at least a couple of years.

He says they’ll likely have some sort of community participation in naming the new gorilla.

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Louisville Mayor Jerry Abramson is asking the Metro Council to approve a $7 million funding plan that he says will help complete several major construction projects.

Abramson says an improved bond market and the availability of stimulus funds will allow the city to move forward on the Glacier Run expansion at the zoo, build a new park along the Floyd’s Fork Corridor and make available the final funds for a new Beechmont Fire Station.

“We have not been able to go to the bond market over the past couple of years because of the financial crisis. In the past, we’ve been using short term financing, we’re now going to save money by doing long-term financing plus using the stimulus bonding capacity in the Build America bonds and in the energy bonds, which saves us some debt service,” Abramson said Wednesday.

Abramson wants to pursue $3.2 million in stimulus bonds for energy improvements for several downtown government buildings.

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