orangutan

And then there were four! That was the tease that the El Paso Zoo posted on Facebook before they announced that there would be a new addition to their family of animals.

The El Paso Zoo is inviting all moms and families to celebrate the latest addition of the new baby orangutan and help vote for her name on Mother’s Day.

A 12-year-old Bornean orangutan named Jorong became a viral sensation this week when video surfaced of him rescuing a seemingly injured moorhen chick from drowning in a pond inside his enclosure. The four-minute long, one-ape, one-leaf rescue effort took place at the Dublin Zoo in Ireland sometime before 2008 when Jorong was moved to a zoo in Western England as part of an international breeding pr