Orangutan Jazz is an amazing Mother and grandmother. Looking after both her baby and her daughter's baby.
At Dudley zoo, they always get their drinks in bottles. It's just flavoured water, nothing sweet. It's normally sugar-free fruit tea. Jazz is still holding on tightly to her baby Jim and her daughter's baby Joe when she gets her bottle. She really has her arms full and carrying the bottle in her mouth. She's the epitome of a multitasking mum. Sprout, her older daughter and mum of Joe is sitting by the water with her food and drink. The concrete walls you see are part of their old enclosure. They've got the new enclosure next door adjacent to this. At the time of filming the new enclosure was taken up for a few hours by the flanged male Orangutan Benji and Benji likes his own space he doesn't like company, so they are sharing the new space.
Jim is on her left and Joe is on her right. Jim tries to get to the nicely-coloured bottle.
Sprout is on the move walking past Jazz and the babies. She has got a carrot at the bottom of her drink.
Jazz moves as well, making sure the babies are holding on and she's carrying the bottle in her mouth. Jim is still trying to grab the bottle. Climbing is not a problem for her, she manages it all.
A few close-ups of Sprout enjoying her drink. Up above Jim is still trying to get to the bottle and Sprout tries to get the carrot piece out of the bottle. Before she bites the bottle, she takes a stick and tries it with that. That's what I love about her, she's always thinking, looking for a resolution to any problems. Like when she was a baby, using a newspaper to circumference the electric fence. Did you see the video? (This is the link to that video https://youtu.be/STBX5c5cuDQ). In the end, she bites a little hole in the bottle to get the piece out. A close-up of Jim. Joe is suckling on the other side. Jim tries to play with the bottle, but Jazz moves it to her side. She makes sure the babies are holding on when she moves. A quick look at dad, Djimat.
Orangutan Mother Jazz (30) from the Dudley zoo became super mum as she's not just looking after her own baby boy Jim, now she's looking after her daughter's newborn baby Joe as well, as her daughter found first-time motherhood a little bit challenging. When her daughter Sprout gave birth she walked away and left the baby on the floor. Mother Jazz picked the baby up straight away and she hasn't let go of the babies since. Nursing both and giving both love, care and attention. Staff is closely monitoring both babies and both mums.
Flanged Orangutan male Djimat is the dad of both babies.
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