Old urangutans

[UntBwe]

Just curious; in Apenheul lives Karl, an old orangutan of 49 years. Are there more such old orangutans in captivitiy?

Karl.

Btw, in the same park is Radja living. She is 47. And Sylvia of 44. The park has a total of 3.10 orangutans.

 

[redpanda]

I believe that the oldest orang-utan lived at the Philadelphia Zoo up to the ripe old age of 57. In the wild they tend to make the early forties.

 

[Andiii]

Are there more such old orangutans in captivitiy?

Colchester Zoo, Essex, England, has a fine example of a male hybrid orang called Rajang who is 41 this June. He is awesome. Well worth a visit. )

 

[UntBwe]

Apenheul has Bornean orangutans.

 

[Gigit]

Bulu, a female Bornean, died at Paignton last May aged 47. Her claim to fame was that she was the oldest living captive born orangutan in the UK.

 

[Meaghan Edwards]

Toronto Zoo had a male Sumatran, Dingding, who passed away at the age of 50.

 

[Pertinax]

The first captive Orangutans to reach the 'Fifty' mark were the Sumatran pair 'Guas' and Guarina' at the Philadelphia Zoo. Both reached their fifties while 'Guas' outlived his mate by a few more years too.

Since then a few other Orangutans in zoos have reached fifty and a larger number their late Forties.

There are quite old Sumatran males at both Frankfurt and Stuttgart, and an even older Sumatran 'Major' at La Boisierre France(unless he has died recently) the same applies to another Sumatran male (Siam) at Duisburg.

 

[BjoernN]

1,0 "Charly" at Frankfurt is 52 years old. "Buschi" at Stuttgart is 50, "Siam" at Duisburg 49 years old and he is still breeding with "Annette".

The oldest female orang-utans in Europa are "Elsi" at Basel (51, she has never bred) "Djambi" at Frankfurt (50) and "Bella" at Hagenbeck (48). "Bella" gave birth to a healthy girl in 2005 with 44 years.

"Major" at La Boissiere du Dore is 47 years old.