Tuesday, 30 January 2018

Orangutan Youngster Builds A Hammock

The Sumatran orangutan youngster from the Chester zoo in England is high in the tree with its jute sack and trying to build itself a hammock or is it a cocoon? The youngster is wrapping the sack around him and trying to attach it to the tree. When he is finally getting it to stay attached to the tree he starts seesawing and wiggling about. You can see his hands coming out to give him more of push to seesaw and getting a bit more motion in the swing. Which makes him fall out of the hammock, but he's not giving up! The great ape is having another go.
The Sumatran orangutan are one of three species of orangutans and are rarer than the Bornean orangutan. They are critically endangered in the wild.





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