Saturday, January 19

So, no difference there

IT'S the summer of love for Kluet and Karta, but the Sumatran orang-utans have shown that you can't hurry love.

Kluet arrived at Adelaide Zoo from Taronga Park Zoo in Sydney last August to breed with Karta but primate keeper Simone Bayly says the 12-year-old had some serious reservations about romance.

"To start with he was extremely scared of her and she would chase him," she said yesterday.

"Then we had to make the decision to do it (put them together) every single day and then he fell in love with her and now he does pretty much what she (Karta) wants him to.

"She'll put her hand out and if he's got something that she wants he'll let her have it."

AdelaideNow... Love's grand on planet of apes

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