24 Hour Care for Aurora, Baby Orangutan at the Houston Zoo

[@ForestGirlTeresa]

It's great to see the effort the staff put in to raising this baby. No small cages for her! So important to realize that the baby needs 24 hour care. And I love that they expose her to other orangutans. I feel so sorry for other baby orangutans who have list their birth mothers. Even the babies in the rehab facilities don’t have this constant care. Bravo, zoo team!

[@michellegruber4187]

This baby is very sweet and the caretakers are wonderful people.

[@sgtmajvimy]

Beautiful girl, great job team 🙂

[@jonaswhite5842]

Long Live Orangutans!

[@annecorey607]

Cute baby so sweet with the keeper he is vert good with the keeper Bless them all staffs as well

[@daphnetheophanous4679]

Anne Corey s

[@MonalisaCerrutti]

Killed by a cuteness overdose!

[@annecorey607]

So cute babies the staffs here is wounderfull to this babies they all work very hard Bless you all thank you good video .

[@Sherri1971US]

Thank you for caring.

[@barbaracook7574]

She's lovely ❤️❤️

[@kathleengallegos420]

She's so pretty

[@Laura-hf8jy]

I am so jealous of anybody who has this job !! Maybe I would get bored after a week and see it as work ! Lol either way .. great job guys ! ❤🙊

[@gorillafan100]

Good Job volunteers...

[@van.or90]

She is 10 years old now

[@keithmuehsam8990]

RIP little one

[@Sean_R_Hanrahan]

Thank you for all the hard work you are putting in! I would love to visit you guys one day. Best wishes for the future! ❤️🐵

[@sharonmangiaracina8485]

I love Aurora .. so cute! I like the way Zookeeper lady on this video talks . She is full love and her staff is too . Praise God 🙏❤️❌⭕

[@adrianadavila35]

my dream is to work at the houston zoo, i LOVE ANIMALS !! and my dream WILL come true! :)

[@collectorofcats294]

Adriana Davila I would like to work with the big cats...

[@suzyn9119]

Sweet little baby

[@bridgetttubbs9959]

After 50 years she will get use to the exhibit I would imagine. But yes it is good for the baby to get sun. I think all orangutans chimpanzees and gorillas should be in the forest where they belong. Also thanks to all the caregivers

[@luckycavy1397]

They should be but unfortunately we've screwed that up royally by destroying the forests. I'm just glad we have a chance to make that right.

[@beckyarmstrong6906]

she is so cute !!!!! i want to be one of the keepers!!!!! I wouled bring her home any day!!!!!

[@easttnlawncare6740]

I would love that job

[@myheartisinjapan3184]

If that’s not a dream job, idk what is.

[@mplussant]

CUUUUUTE!…

[@keithmuehsam8990]

Lol. They said it was good exercise for her to walk around the zoo. I’m unfortunately, she wasn’t walking. She was being carried

[@scarletredmagic6724]

Oh my goodness I'd love that Job the sweet baby orangutan is Soo Cute 😊😘

[@JoeyArmstrong2800]

What causes some Orangutans to reject their babies?. I thought they had a close bond.

[@amydamjanovic9183]

The same reasons why some humans are bad parents, I imagine.

[@tinabina1219]

I wauld love to volunteer with orangutans. They're so amazing I want to be there foster mom if there real mom or a foster orangutan mom aren't available.

[@ZOOTSUITBEATNICK1]

imo You people rock! imo

[@naqiuddinzamani9273]

I love orangutan

[@Leelyn05]

@SuperPitbullMan so the baby doesn't catch any diseases from the human caregivers,they can catch colds,infections easily from humans..

[@220CMpunk]

orangutans are so cute when their young. I don't care if its a hard job i would do it any day:)

[@erdemkaya2735]

SEND THEM BACK!!!

[@solitairecatnaps4444]

Back where??

[@liekiokling3552]

愿“红毛猩猩”代代平安健康活着。。感谢你们的“爱心”付出。。。好人有好报

[@rickgolden9220]

They don’t have to live in Borneo do they

[@Chillacute]

hi ... aurora ... how are you know cutie ?

[@anniemisseasttnlawncare2908]

When they are in captivity and people put them in cages that's one of the reasons why they are traumatized and so sad because they don't have another body to clean to

[@anniemisseasttnlawncare2908]

That is a job I would love doing

[@lfaltoni]

because all people are wearing face protection when they are with Aurora?

[@ShambhuAgrawal]

Trees! Trees! Trees!

[@rickgolden9220]

If these things r becoming or close to being extinct why can’t they be turned loose in other areas or country’s with bigger forest

[@sarahbrown5373]

that's a good question. The answer is that the forest they live in has to have the right kind of trees for them to be able to find the food that they need to eat, and the leaves that they need for building nests. The trees also have to be the right kind for them to be able to live in the canopy, where they're safe from predators. In the wild, they never touch the ground until they fall out of the tree dead. The trees in Borneo, Sumatra, and the Amazon provide the fruits that keep them hydrated and healthy. So, they wouldn't be able to survive in other kinds of forests. The rainforests that they depend on only exist in a few countries, and are shrinking. It would be amazing if they could be able to live wild in other areas, but they simply can't.

[@williamsmith666]

Do you get paid to be an idiot?

[@rickgolden9220]

@@williamsmith666 fuck off

[@alysonfishel6039]

And be safe

[@cantonai]

Free them

[@louisekooijman1068]

Perche l' hanno tolto dalla madre ? Non è normale dividere i neonati dalla madre , Neanche per gli animali, poveretto

[@theftking]

"We'll walk around the zoo at dusk, and that's good exercise for her." Good exercise for who, the orangtuan or the keeper? As far as I can tell, the keeper is literally just carrying the orangutan around...

[@cherokeeheartct8633]

They are speaking of her clinging while the carwgiver is walking,and her getting to see and hear the other animals so she will be use to the sounds and it won't be scary,sitting in a tiny room ,is not doing snything for her.

[@fallon-grey5896]

Orangutans at her age wouldn’t walk around. You can see she’s so young she can barely move. She would be with her mother the entire time.

[@LocoGeorge123]

Orangutan babies are for all intents and purposes human babies. You wouldn't try to force a newborn human to walk lmao, on average in the wild they stay clinging to their mothers almost exclusively until they are 1 year old, then they start climbing around by themselves little by little. Males stay with their moms until about 9 years old and females a few years longer to learn how to raise babies from their mother when she has her next child. Just look how tiny she is, walk around? lol They rarely walk on the ground in the wild because of Tigers, Leopards, poisonous snakes, monitor lizards etc their child rearing length is second longest in the animal kingdom only next to humans.

[@Nate-lp2cu]

Don’t want mothers to reject their babies? Don’t keep them in cages.

[@kyleschultz6008]

The little monkeys are soo effing ugly 🤣 makes them cute tho 🤣🤣

[@suetaylor1127]

And she'll live 2.5 times longer then wild orangutans. But don't be complaining about taking care of her because people would like tens of thousands of dollars to do what you people do.

[@collectorofcats294]

Does the Houston Zoo also have a breeding program for big or lesser cats?

[@kingchris9167]

Kathryn Mitchell They have a lion program

[@gracielagomez825]

Que emocinante

[@aronensharma3148]

Orangutan is just like human baby.... it takes lots of time to survive on his own..... so he wont be able to exist in this universe... It takes 5 to 6 years to pregnant and again 6 years to separate from his mother..

[@suetaylor1127]

Oh goodness sakes they are pets. Orangutans make the best best king living pets or family members ever. Hard work my ass they live playing with orangutans is awesome.

[@Pluggit1953]

OK until their hormones kick in.

[@stephenbrand5661]

Orangutans are definitely NOT pets!!

[@elizabethleninski4550]

What are these people saying? Really?

[@sundaramurthymurthy7561]

எனக்கும் குட்டி குரங்கு வேண் டும் தருவீர்களா

[@elizabethleninski4550]

Beat?

[@consuellaturner]

Good exercise?? She sint walking she clinging! All they do is eat and shit. And they arent babies.

[@gracielagomez825]

Bebe hermoso lo quiero para mi

[@melatimelati1313]

😻😻😻

[@davidfinlay5239]

Why do u where the mask for?

[@apriltoo]

Because orangutan is sensitive and prone to desease just like human being. If the caretaker got flu or cough the orangutan will get it too.

[@adriantorres3812]

Baby maurice

[@gracielagomez825]

😍😘😍😘😍😘😍😘

[@DianaKazimiera-]

😘💗😘

[@DianaKazimiera-]

😘😘💗💗

[@regc4963]

Sempre a mesma coisa ,tiram da mãe.Pra humanizar o bicho ,depois dizem que vão ensinar a ser bicho de novo

[@elderepyper]

😍😍😍

[@moniqueh7948]

It should be ILLEGAL to emprison these amazing animals in their tiny zoo exhibits. They are essentially in jail. Send them to a sanctuary in Borneo!!!! This is disgusting.

[@solitairecatnaps4444]

Their forest habitat is quickly disappearing as the trees are cleared for logging and row after row of oil palms are planted. There are a few sanctuaries that take in the orphans whose mothers are killed by poachers, but they do not have unlimited space for releasing the adults after they are rehabilitated. They are doing the best they can. The captive orangutans in zoos may be the only ones left in another 50 years.

[@ZERO_42069]

Drop em in boiling water like they do lobsters

[@chubbs_86]

All these zoos and so called sanctuaries will come up with any reason to hand raise any ape species. Just an excuse to have a cute pet that you get paid to have, with none of the responsibility.

[@user-jq2oj5ey1h]

Ненавижу этих обезьян

[@lynlynbaguio8141]

Let the orangutan to have freedom...its so sick to let ger stay jn a cage....to all the people its hard to live like prisoner. Return the orangutan in borneo where they have a winderful place for them.

[@DianaKazimiera-]

😘😘💗💗