It was a cold blustery winter day in the Melbourne Zoo in July 2011. Baby Dewi, an eight month old orangutan was born in the Melbourne Zoo in December 2010 and by her eighth month is so adorable that she is fondly nicknamed “Jennifer Anniston” by the rubber necking college students crowding around her enclosure one cold wintery day in July 2011.

What shocked one student, Bernard Lowry (no relation to the zoo’s Conservation Director, Ms Rachel Lowry) is that orangutan “Jennifer Anniston” was totally stark naked clinging to a rag, desperately seeking the solace of some warmth!

“How cruel and disgraceful for the zoo to exhibit this poor animal in such conditions!” exclaimed Lowry (Bernard that is); “Doesn’t the zoo know that orangutans are tropical animals and do not belong in a zoo, least of all in Melbourne with its cold biting winters?” the concerned student exclaimed.




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