Orangutan Mum Always Keeping An Eye On The Babies

Orangutan baby Joe is looking in the direction of the camera, stretching out his arm. I’m quite a distance away, so it isn’t towards me. Jazz is there just under the net, hidden behind the pole. Baby Jim on the left side is hanging on to the net. Every time you see his hairdo it just brings a smile to your face. Jim climbs down to his mum Jazz while Joe ( Sprout’s son, but looked after by his Jazz) is still on the net. While Joe climbs higher and higher. Sprout appears who is Joe’s birth mother. She climbs towards her son and reaches out to him, I can’t quite see, but I think she only touched him and wasn’t really trying to hold on to him. Joe climbs higher up and Sprout gives up and climbs down to the ground. Joe looks down at her but then carries on. Jazz is down the bottom with Jim eating grass, but she is keeping an eye out for Joe. She looks up at Joe and then she seems to make a decision that it’s now too high and tugs Baby Jim under her arm and moves towards the net. She
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