Orangutan

Learn how zookeepers improve and enhance an animal's quality of life thru our enrichment program. Enrichment in zoos is essential for enhancing animal welfare and encouraging natural behaviors and may include puzzle feeders, climbing structures, and sensory stimulation through new scents and objects. Come prepared with questions and and ask our zookeepers anything you have in mind, especially questions concerning the zoo's buffoonery of orangutans! Orangutans are known as gardeners of the forest, because they help spread seeds around. They eat fruit from the trees, the seeds come out the other end, the forest spreads. Without that seed distribution, the rainforests of Borneo and Sumatra would be drastically different, and that would have impacts on all the people and animals that depend on those rainforests.