00:03So this morning we're out in front of the orangutan exhibit here at the San Diego
00:08Zoo and we're trying to get some great footage of our young Sumatran orang Aisha.
00:13Aisha is almost eight and a half months old. We're seeing a lot of behaviors with her.
00:18She's always been very curious about her surroundings and very observant and she
00:24is trying all sorts of food anything that she can put in her mouth she's definitely trying it out.
00:29That's a good thing. But yeah mom is now allowing her to take some of the fruit. Fruit is a
00:35very
00:35favorite food item so a lot of times mom wasn't sharing but now mom is sharing.
00:40Today on exhibit the orangutans got bamboo and jello in the bamboo. This allows the orangutans
00:48to tool use and use their enrichment for a longer period of time and Inda definitely likes it.
00:55They'll use sticks to grab and get the bamboo out and this is a great learning experience for the baby
01:01also. She'll be watching mom. As she gets older mom will start actively teaching her.
01:12Inda will swing horizontally on the rope. She is really the only orangutan I've seen do that so it is
01:19a
01:19behavior that she really likes so it definitely looks like she's rocking her so it'll be interesting
01:24to see when Aisha gets older if she'll do that same behavior that she learned from mom. It will
01:28be interesting to see if she likes it and becomes an adult that does it too. We will see Aisha
01:32leave
01:33mom on her own and climb around the ropes and climbing structure on her own and then other times we'll
01:38see
01:39mom place the baby into the hammock or physically try and put the baby away from her and that could
01:46be a
01:47couple of things. It could be that mom wants her to have more time climbing around and building those
01:52muscles and gaining strength and confidence and it could just be that mom wants some alone time
01:57and it's hot and she doesn't want a baby clinging to her so it's all kind of just up for
02:01interpretation
02:02of why she's doing it but both reasons are very valid reasons.
02:09So we're all very excited to see Aisha grow and develop but it'll be a slow process. Orangutan babies
02:15do stay with their moms almost exclusively for three to four years before they really even start
02:21venturing and up to eight years before they leave their mom so it'll be a very slow process.
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