Bottle-fed baby orangutan at New Orleans zoo fascinates other apes
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New Orleans' Audubon Zoo is hand-raising a month-old Sumatran orangutan infant after complications emerged with the mother's lactation.
The unnamed baby ape was originally being tube-fed until Jan. 13. In this undated photo provided by the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans, an endangered Sumatran orangutan infant, who was born on Dec. 24, 2021, is held in New Orleans. (Audubon Zoo via AP) In an undated photo provided by the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans, an endangered Sumatran orangutan infant, born on Dec. 24, 2021, is examined in New Orleans. (Audubon Zoo via AP) In this undated photo from the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans, an endangered Sumatran orangutan infant, born on Dec. 24, 2021, is bottle-fed milk. (Audubon Zoo via AP)
Now the infant is receiving constant care from zoo staffers decked out in furry vests for him to cling to as they tend to him.