Dear MEL Topic Readers,
Zoo shares adorable pictures of orangutans
playing with their otter friends
Otters have long, slim bodies and relatively
short limbs. They are, by nature, playful in the water with their offspring, pups.
They usually eat fish and live up to 16 years.
An orangutan has a large body, a thick neck, long
and strong arms, short and bowed legs, and no tail. It is mostly covered with
long, reddish-brown hair. Orangutans only live in the rainforests of Borneo and
Sumatra.
If you read
these descriptions, they unlikely become good friends. However, in a zoo in
Belgium, a family of orangutans and their cohabitants, otters, became close to
each other. Since orangutans
share 97% of their DNA with humans, they are very intelligent, sensitive, and emotional
like us. Otters’ playful nature seems to be of interest to the intelligent primates
there.
Enjoy seeing the photos of these unlikely
friends in the zoo.
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