stressed peanut and pumpkin! what a stressful thing to hafta care for 2 orangutangs. i guess i can give a lil brief history which is what i tell the public anyways wink we have 2 female orangutang twins in parrot jungle (where i work). they are gonna be 3 years old dec 2nd. they have the strength of 2 full grown men eek ya....so they pretty much act their age just the same as a human child INCLUDING terrible twos eek they need a LOT of attention and did i mention they have THE STRENGTH OF 2 FULL GROWN MEN??? i must rem that when im in the habitat with them sweatdrop they hit really hard and they bite EVEN HARDER! crying crying crying i got bit like 5 times badly. ill have those bruises for WEEKS to come. they have a bite right now the equivilent of 300 pounds per square inch eek a human only has up to 180-190 pounds per square inch confused so it was a lil crazy today considering we had to do a show and 2 events today with them. thank GOD i was only there for the show and 1 event. peanut and pumpkin are only the 3rd pair of twin orangutangs born in captivity in recorded history. surprised they had a normal mom that did very well caring them but she wasnt able to fullfill her duty as a mom. they were taken away when they were about 7 months old bc their mom couldnt produce enuf milk for the both of them cry the 2 were taken so that they could grow up together and wouldnt be lonely. i kno this sounds kinda cruel, but in the wild, twins wouldnt survive. one would eventually have starved to death, or even worse both of them could have starved sad peanut weighs 45 pounds and pumpkin weighs about 50. eek we also have a baby baboon that we take care of. his name is pharaoh. hes also a handful. hes only 9 months old and really cute 3nodding he was abandoned by his mom like some human moms do stare he will be taken care of by hand until about another year and a half or until his fangs grow in. he will be too aggressive for human contact eek the twins are apes and the baboon is a monkey. the dif is very simple. apes dont have tails and monkeys do wink orangutangs and baboons dont usually interact with each other in the wild bc orangtangs are treedwellers and baboons are usually forragers on the ground, but these guys get along and play in our habitat just fine blaugh peanut is the wild and crazy one that needs the most attention and pumpkin is very layed back. pharaoh kinda climbs all over u and sits on ur shoulder and tries to mess with ur hair. actually they ALL liked my hair cuz its really long. in fact peanut tried to eat my hair eek all in all today was a very interesting day blaugh i get to work with them again in another 2 weeks. they are gonna have me work at the petting barn and the serp this week coming up. i think i have a day doing manu again which is cool cuz im cool cool wells....i heart thresher as always but i like to express it! i wanna shout it out in a crowded restaurant or sumthing xd silly me and i WOULD do that 2 LOL! k i heart everyone!
...princess that got bit but still loves chocolate covered cherries...
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 princess peachey · Sun Nov 19, 2006 @ 04:16am · 0 Comments |
