Chester Zoo sumartran orangutans

That's a lot of babies in a five year period, obviously because they were handraised. It is a great pity she was lost, I get the impression she was moved to Frankfurt at a bad time- when she was heavily pregnant?
 
The transport of "Maria" to Frankfurt was a unexcusable mistake. "Tuan" from Zurich was shipped to Santillan last year, she gave birth there in 2010, to teach "Juliana" and "Victoria" how to raise offspring.
 
'Maria' was the only surviving offspring(apart from maybe one now in Japan) of the male 'Adam' which lived at Bristol for some years. At least his genes continue into the next generation and further if these young females breed in due course.
 
BjoernN said:
"Maria's" half-brother "Jack" died in Hirakawa Zoo, Japan in 2007. He never bred.
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Was this the same animal I knew as 'Kertawa'? He would have been Maria's halfbrother or even closer than that ( the same father, Adam, mother was another(older) daughter of Maria's mother Anne). What a shame, he should have stayed in the UK and been allowed to breed here.:(
 
Javan Rhino said:
So far as I know they're still in a breeding situation, Emma and Subis tend to have young around a similar time every 2-3 years or so.
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Reading back through this thread and noticed this, it's more like 4 years and even this is a much shorter inter-birth interval than in the wild which is about 7 or 8 years.
 
OrangePerson said:
Reading back through this thread and noticed this, it's more like 4 years and even this is a much shorter inter-birth interval than in the wild which is about 7 or 8 years.
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Most females(when allowed) breed more frequently/have shorter birth intervals in captivity, even when mother-raising their offspring. Reasons could be; better feeding, more familiarity with male partner, so less desire to avoid males when raising young, less dependance of young/earlier weaning of young- just a few ideas.
 
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