The five-month-old gorilla was discovered in a box on a Turkish Airlines flight from Nigeria to Thailand last month.
READ MORE:Zeytin, a five-month-old male gorilla infant who was rescued at Istanbul Airport, drinks milk in a specially created section of a zoo. "Of course, what we want and desire is for the baby gorilla … to continue its life in its homeland," Fahrettin Ulu, regional director of Istanbul Nature Conservation and National Parks, said on Sunday.
In the weeks since he was found, Zeytin gained weight and was showing signs of recovering from his traumatic journey. Both gorilla species — the western and eastern gorillas, which populate central Africa's remote forests and mountains — are classified as endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.As Istanbul emerges as a major air hub between continents, customs officials have increasingly intercepted illegally traded animals.
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