Good News Network | By Andy Corbley | Jun 14, 2023 | Curious Orangutan | Travel Insurance
When Amber the curious orangutan met a visitor called Taylor, her day became focused on a single objective—finding out what was inside her purse.
Filmed at the Louisville Zoo in Kentucky, the Curious Orangutan’s gestures are simply too human to believe, such as gesturing with her index finger like an overly proud security guard at a concert security screening.
Then, lifting her chin as if she were trying to look over a ledge, it becomes clear to Taylor she’s interested in what’s inside her small shoulder bag.
A curious Orangutan Notices the bag of Candy
As she begins to rifle through it on Amber’s behalf, the orangutan spots a bag of sweets and immediately knows that’s what she wants.
The whole interaction is amazing as she walks to the edge of the enclosure and begins to show Taylor how she can give him the sweets through the keeper’s area.
WATCH the whole video of the Curious Orangutan below…
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the group of primates. For other uses, see Orangutan (disambiguation).
Orangutans are great apes native to the rainforests of Indonesia and Malaysia. They are now found only in parts of Borneo and Sumatra, but during the Pleistocene they ranged throughout Southeast Asia and South China. Classified in the genus Pongo, orangutans were originally considered to be one species. From 1996, they were divided into two species: the Bornean orangutan (P. pygmaeus, with three subspecies) and the Sumatran orangutan (P. abelii). A third species, the Tapanuli orangutan (P. tapanuliensis), was identified definitively in 2017. The orangutans are the only surviving species of the subfamily Ponginae, which diverged genetically from the other hominids (gorillas, chimpanzees, and humans) between 19.3 and 15.7 million years ago.
