At an animal hotel, Babe falls in with a circus family of monkeys, including a hip chimpanzee couple and a morose orangutan the animals, who speak in dark ironies, have the real depression of lifetime circus performers.

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They will also be able to tell the difference between an ex-captive orangutan and a wild one.

BBC: Drifting down the Sekonyer

Or even of usefulness, which might have recommended it to an orangutan as a way of helping it to keep its balance, but not as a way of stripping someone else's text of all its original character.

NPR: Excerpt: 'Borges and the Eternal Orangutans'

Bahasha gave birth on Monday in the outside enclosure, a week after Jantho, an orangutan was born.

BBC: Gorilla born at Jersey's Durrell wildlife park

As soon as he visited his first 515-pound patient, an orangutan named Kandu with a family history of heart disease, Hergott was fascinated by the experience.

BBC: Healing the hearts of men and gorillas

Among the rental items: a two-meter-long snake, an orangutan and some lizards and tarantulas. (The island is home to such creatures as pythons, macaques and fruit bats.) While the castaways need to be mentally and physically fit, wilderness experience isn't a must.

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