Yes, the exhibit is about 1 year old. These orangutans actually do use their climbing structures a lot more than I seen any other orangutan do in any other exhibit. They were walking towards the tree and got on it. I like how the zoo lets them use the tree in the middle, which is big and tall with lots of branches they could sit in.
My thoughts exactly. When I visited in December of 2002 the Orangutan "cage," for that's all you could call it, was horrid. But even then this zoo was already on the way up. I personally think their Chimpanzee habitat is amongst the very best I've ever seen. Their whole Africa section, some 11 acres I believe, was outstanding.
