Photo by dcmandrill

The National Zoo announced today that its three-week-old baby gorilla is a female. In a recent interview with DCist, the Zoo’s Associate Director for Animal Care, Don Moore, explained why it can often take a long time to determine the sex of a baby gorilla, and ventured that due to the baby’s lineage, it would be more important if it turned out to be a female than a male, so this is apparenly good gorilla genetic news! The baby was born on January 10 to 26-year-old mom Mandara and 16-year-old dad Baraka— read the entire interview with Moore to learn whether that 10-year age gap made for a scandalous hook-up.

The baby girl has yet to be named. The National Zoo is well known for holding naming contests for its baby animals, but they have not announced one in this case.

Video of Mandara and baby below by RoxandaBear.