Baby orang utan dies in a freak accident at the zoo!

Feb 13, 2008
Baby orang utan dies in a freak accident at the zoo
TRAGEDY struck the zoo's orang utans a second time in a week, when a young female orang utan died of a dislocated neck in a freak accident on Wednesday. The Zoo lost another one of its Orang Utans on Wednesday when two and a half-year-old Atina caught her neck in a hanging noose (above) and dislocated it. Her mother is seen trying to cradle her but to no avail. At mid-day, Atina, aged 2 1/2, caught her neck in a hanging noose, which was part of a hammock in the apes' enclosure. Her mother Anita and other orang utans, in their haste to free her, tugged at her neck, dislocating it. She died instantly, said a zoo spokesman.