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# Sumatran orangutan

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Endangered orangutan gives birth to healthy infant in New Orleans zoo

Fewer than 14,000 Sumatran orangutans live in the wild.

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Dec 28th 2021, 3:50 PM

World's oldest Sumatran orangutan dies aged 62

Born in 1956, she was noted by the Guinness Book of Records as being the oldest verified Sumatran orangutan in the world.

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Jun 19th 2018, 11:10 AM