Cute, cuter, Akeno - the youngest offspring of the orangutan family in Rostock Zoo now has a name. There were also gifts.
Rostock (dpa / mv) - The orangutan boy born six weeks ago in Rostock Zoo was baptized Akeno. In a vote, almost half of the participants voted for the name, the zoo said on Friday. In Indonesia - the original homeland of the human beings - the name means as much as dawn or sunrise. "That fits very well, since the little one was born in the early hours of the morning," it said.
"Not much happens to little orangutans in the first few months. He clings to his mother, drinks regularly and sleeps a lot," curator for mammals Daniela Lahn is quoted as saying. Mama Hsiao-Ning takes good care of her little one. According to the information, it is the sixth orangutan cub since the Darwineum opened at Rostock Zoo in 2012.
At the state zoo day, zoo director Antje Angeli announced the name together with the chairman of the WIRO management board, Ralf Zimlich. The housing company is the godfather for the orangutans in the zoo, among other things. At the request of the animal keepers, Akeno received a laundry package from the company. The animals played constantly with towels, blankets and sheets and happily hid under them.
The zoo referred to information from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), according to which the red forest people (Indonesian for orangutan) in Asia are in acute danger of extinction. The main reasons are illegal hunting and the continuous destruction of the habitat.
