14-year-old Batu will be a first-time mom. The zoo is preparing her with a maternal skills training program.
SEATTLE — For the first time in over three decades, the Woodland Park Zoo is expecting the arrival of an orangutan baby.
Fourteen-year-old Sumatran orangutan Batu is due to give birth this summer, in late August or early September. The gestation period for orangutans is around nine months.
Orangutans have exceptionally long intervals between birth, only having offspring once every seven to nine years, according to the Woodland Park Zoo. Baby orangutans are completely dependent on their mothers for the first three to four years of
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