Get to Know Our Dynamic Mom-and-Daughter Orangutan Duo, Hadiah and Ember – CMZoo https://www.cmzoo.org/news/archive/get-to-know-our-dynamic-mom-and-daughter-orangutan-duo-hadiah-and-ember/
With Mother’s Day around the corner, staff at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo are reflecting on one mother-daughter relationship that stands out: Bornean orangutans, Hadiah [huh-DEE-uh] and Ember. “They’re incredibly close,” Ashton Asbury, animal keeper in Primate World, says. “Great apes are intelligent and complex beings, and we see different parenting types in each of them. Hadiah, . . .
are mostly solitary as adults, unless they are interacting for breeding or they have
