ATLANTA – Zoo Atlanta announced that a newborn western lowland gorilla was found dead Monday morning, according to a press release from the zoo. “We are heartbroken by the loss of not just this special little individual, but by the loss of a newborn member of a critically endangered species,” the Zoo’s Vice President of Collections and Conservation Gina Ferrie said in a press release. “Like humans, newborn gorillas are very fragile, and the first few days of life are uncertain for any baby animal.”