The Houston Zoo is deeply saddened to announce the passing of Doc, a Bornean orangutan and a revered member of the Houston Zoo family. Doc was 27 years old.
Born at the Dallas Zoo on Christmas Day 1984, Doc came to the Houston Zoo at the age of three as a social companion for a then-adolescent female orangutan, Kelly. Their companionship resulted in two births, 8 year old Solaris and 5 month old Aurora. Both Solaris and Aurora live at the Houston Zoo’s Wortham World of Primates orangutan exhibit.
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