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Kadie

(15,369 posts)
Tue Jan 24, 2012, 09:59 PM Jan 2012

A baby orangutan named Changi - pics


This may be harder than I thought: Changi the baby orangutan tries to gnaw through a chain at the zoo in Krefeld, Germany.
Photo: Roland Weihrauch / AFP/Getty Images


After unsuccessfully trying to chew through steel, Changi turns to Mom Lea for a comforting kiss at Germany's Krefeld Zoo.
Photo: Roland Weihrauch / AFP/Getty Images


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A baby orangutan named Changi - pics (Original Post) Kadie Jan 2012 OP
I proudly proclaim shared lineage with these wonderful great apes. hlthe2b Jan 2012 #1

hlthe2b

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1. I proudly proclaim shared lineage with these wonderful great apes.
Tue Jan 24, 2012, 10:39 PM
Jan 2012

Snarky comments aside (and undoubtedly some are tempted), I never cease to be amazed at the commonalities and obvious emotional intelligence of the "lower" primates. I could spend hours watching the chimps and gorillas--and of course the orangutans.

Adorable!

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