(CNN) -- Visitors to the San Francisco Zoo are going ape over the zoo's latest addition: a baby gorilla, born earlier this week. Zookeepers haven't identified the sex of the infant. They're hesitant to separate the newborn from its mother, especially with its 500-pound papa watching.

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