The new rainforest house in Dortmund Zoo, built to house sumatran orang-utans and malayan tapirs. The outdoor enclosure is split in two by a low wall of rocks, keeping the tapirs on one side, but letting the orangs use both sides.
The new rainforest house in Dortmund Zoo, built to house sumatran orang-utans and malayan tapirs. The outdoor enclosure is split in two by a low wall of rocks, keeping the tapirs on one side, but letting the orangs use both sides.
When I visited, they pretty much ignored each other. The orangs walked about on the ground in the tapir-part of the enclosure, but they didn't mind each other at all. I think the enclosure could do with a few more actual trees, but otherwise it's realy cool.
