Two Babies, A Bottle - Climbing Multitasking Orangutan Mother

Orangutan Jazz is an amazing Mother and grandmother. Looking after both her baby and her daughter’s baby. At Dudley zoo, they always get their drinks in bottles. It’s just flavoured water, nothing sweet. It’s normally sugar-free fruit tea. Jazz is still holding on tightly to her baby Jim and her daughter’s baby Joe when she gets her bottle. She really has her arms full and carrying the bottle in her mouth. She’s the epitome of a multitasking mum. Sprout, her older daughter and mum of Joe is sitting by the water with her food and drink. The concrete walls you see are part of their old enclosure. They’ve got the new enclosure next door adjacent to this. At the time of filming the new enclosure was taken up for a few hours by the flanged male Orangutan Benji and Benji likes his own space he doesn’t like company, so they are sharing the new space. Jim is on her left and Joe is on her right. Jim tries to get to the nicely-coloured bottle. Sprout is on the move walking past J
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