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Zoo director becomes surrogate mother to baby monkey (Daily Life 2020, by Yvain Genevay) - Swiss Press Award

Cremines, le 12 avril 2019. Marc et Fredi
Yvain Genevay
Cremines, le 12 avril 2019. Marc et Fredi
Photo / Daily Life
2020

Zoo director becomes surrogate mother to baby monkey

Yvain Genevay

Marc Zihlmann, director of Silkypark Zoo in the Bernese Jura region, lives with baby Capuchin monkey Fredi. He serves as his surrogate mother, while his real mother cares for his twin brothers.

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Zoo director becomes surrogate mother to baby monkey

Le Matin Dimanche

Photo / Daily Life
2020

Yvain Genevay

Marc Zihlmann, director of Silkypark Zoo in the Bernese Jura region, lives with baby Capuchin monkey Fredi. He serves as his surrogate mother, while his real mother cares for his twin brothers.

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Yvain Genevay / Swiss Press Award

Yvain Genevay

photographe, Renens, 1967

Yvain Genevay is a Swiss photographer based in Lausanne. He works primarily as a reporter and portraitist for daily and weekly newspapers. In 2000, he joined the editorial teams of Le Matin and Le Matin Dimanche as a staff photographer. In 2015, he received the Swiss Press Award 15 "Photographer of the Year" for a report on a Syrian refugee family. Since 2018, he has been the staff photographer for Le Matin Dimanche.

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