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“That attrition is a marker for how difficult and time-consuming the program is,” said Mara Rodriguez, the zoo’s development coordinator.

The Los Angeles Zoo has announced the birth of a baby boy Bornean orangutan, the first such primate baby at the zoo in almost 15 years.

Abel followed Cohen to the zoo, to make sure she wasn’t being tailed.

The zoo initially gained a profile as the setting to a reality television programme that starred its founder, Craig Busch, who was known as the "Lion Man".

There were no realistic options for re-homing them at other New Zealand zoos.