This mom got a once-in-a-lifetime chance to bond with an orangutan. As Gemma Copeland began breastfeeding her 15-month-old son, Jasper, at the Schoenbrunn Zoo in Vienna, Austria, she was not expecting the primates behind the glass to notice.
Some breast-feeding Irish moms rushed to help a pregnant orangutan who didn’t know how to feed her babies — personally demonstrating their technique to her through glass in an incredibly heartwarming effort.
Mujur had given birth in 2019 and 2022, but both babies ultimately died when she didn’t “exhibit the necessary maternal qualities’’ — so something had to be tried differently this time around, the zoo said.Ahead of the 2024 birth, the zoo sent out an SOS to local moms in the hopes they could show Mujur how to breast-feed.
“You are going from being a mother yourself to trying to help a mother-to-be. You would be talking to her, saying, ‘Look, this is what you are meant to do,’ ” Murphy said. The zoo said it made the “difficult decision” to separate the ape baby from mother so that workers could bottle feed him for a few weeks before he is moved to a specialist institution in the UK that has experience hand-raising orangutans.
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