Hagenbeck Zoo Orang enclosure » Hamburg Zoo

Originally Posted by Sitara

Sumatran orangutans (p.abelii)

Tuan - *1998 Duisburg (Siam x Anette), since 2001 Hagenbeck/Hamburg, will become the new alpha male. He is very communicative and everybody´s darling.

Bella – wild *1961 ?, since 1964 Hagenbeck/Hamburg. She is one of the eldest female orangutans living in a zoo, adopted the children of another female (Mokko) and brought them up (Chuij, who is living now in Budapest/Hungary and Sinta, now in Stuttgart/Germany) together with her own ones. As she is a brave and agil orang, she was one of the first exploring the new habitat and mating there with Sinjo, the boss, who died last year. At the age of 44 (!) years she gave birth in 2005 to a healthy daughter, who was named

Harapan (which means “hope”) and “Marie”, because there exists a german song “Bella Marie…”. Sure, it´s her last offspring.

Toba - *1984 Frankfurt/Main (Charly x Brigitte), since 1989 Hagenbeck/Hamburg. She is very corpulente and dominant and since some years the female leader of the group when she displaced the elder Bella. Sinjo was her favourite and you could often find her together with him even sharing the food! There are 2 offsprings living still with her:

Sly - *1999 Hagenbeck/Hamburg (Sinjo x Toba)

Kejutan - *2004 Hagenbeck/Hamburg (Sinjo x Toba)

Mokko - *1983 Frankfurt/Main (Charly x Djambi), since 1989Hagenbeck/Hamburg, half-sister of Toba. She has a very special personality. Her first children she refused and Bella took care of them. She is the best looking female orang and also a little bit aggressive. Her two last daughters are living with her:

Laila - *1998 Hagenbeck/Hamburg (Sinjo x Mokko)

Simia - *2005 Hagenbeck/Hamburg (Sinjo x Mokko)

Originally Posted by monkeyworld

is Djambi by any chance the female at colchester zoo ???

Originally Posted by Animal

It would be interesting to list all these incedents.

The main problem in Hamburg is, that you are allowed to feed the other monkys but not the apes... So visitors that are not that smart will think: Hey, it´s another monkey, feed it.

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Originally Posted by Jurek7

I loved that branches are especially designed for climbing mode of orangutans.

They have lots of vertical ropes spaced at orangutan arm-width. And bamboo poles which swing under orangutan weight, like wild orangutans swing on small trees. So apes are wonderfully active and happy.

In other zoos you see random mish-mash of branches and ropes, and orangutan climbing with difficulty or sitting on the ground. This is true for other climbing animals, too.

Originally Posted by drzoomi

I am sorry, I am the only one who think that this exhibit is bad?

The smell of oil (from frying) was bad, i have to say that i couldnt stand it and i can only think what those poor orangs must smell everyday.

Shai

Originally Posted by PAT

I have a question regarding one of Animal's pictures...Can the otters access that little bit of land in front of the cafe?
And from looking at zoolex I hadn't realised that there was an underwater view to see the otters swimming.