Pictures Of An Orangutan Family Playing With A Bunch Of Otters Were Posted

There is an old saying that ‘birds of a feather flock together’ and I believe that most of us realize it is a very truthful saying. It’s seen in animals that tend to stick with their own kind and even many people tend to gravitate toward those who have the same interests or a similar lifestyle as they do. As you probably know, however, there is a lot of wiggle room in that statement and there are times whenever we may step outside of our comfort zone and bring someone in. It often ends up being the best choice that we could possibly make, and it seems as if something similar is going on in the animal kingdom.

In Belgium, there is a zoo that showed some pictures of a friendship that was taking place between an orangutan family and some otters. When it comes to birds of a feather, we really couldn’t consider anything to be much different than otters and orangutans. After all, one is cute and cuddly and the other one is rather big, although they are cute as well! It seems as if the animals started interacting with each other when the river for the otters ran through the orangutan enclosure. They ended up forging a ‘very special bond’ and it really shows in the pictures.

มาเล่นกันเถอะ… Orangutan family form a 'very special bond' with otters in zoo https://t.co/Xd6M0vVKmQ pic.twitter.com/20f8VtaDOC

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Since that time, 24-year-old Ujian, 15-year-old Sari, and their three-year-old son, Berani (the orangutans) have been enjoying the visits that they get from their little friends. According to a spokesman for the zoo, Pairi Daiza, they have been having a lot of fun coming up out of the water and playing with the orangutans.

Goedefroy explains: “Two factors are very important for the wellbeing of an animal in captivity: the size of his enclosure, but also the quality of his enclosure.

This means that an animal-and this is even more the case of orangutans, with whom humans share 97 per cent of their DNA-must be entertained, occupied, challenged and kept busy mentally, emotionally and physically at all times.”

this orangutan telling a thrilling story to an entranced audience of otters pic.twitter.com/ZUusnQfpnI

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“For this, we have a very strong ‘enrichment’ program for our orangutans, where our keepers entertain them all day long with mind games, riddles, puzzles, and other stuff to train their intelligence.

One of the ‘enrichments’ is to have different animal species together, so they can interact.

That’s why we chose to let an otter family live in the river that runs through the orangutan territory.”

“In particular, baby Berani and daddy Ujian have developed a very special bond with their neighbors.

It makes life more fun and interesting for both animal species, which makes it a very successful experiment.”