'Inseparable' Mom And Baby Orangutans: Mother's Day Video Clip

By Barbara J. King

Published May 13, 2012 at 10:38 AM CDT

From this primate mother to all others out there ... Happy Mother's Day!

I'm sharing here a beautiful two-minute video from the forests of Sumatra; it shows the intense, prolonged mother-infant bond among orangutans (great apes from Asia).

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Barbara J. King

Barbara J. King is a contributor to the NPR blog 13.7: Cosmos & Culture. She is a Chancellor Professor of Anthropology at the College of William and Mary. With a long-standing research interest in primate behavior and human evolution, King has studied baboon foraging in Kenya and gorilla and bonobo communication at captive facilities in the United States.

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'Inseparable' Mom And Baby Orangutans: Mother's Day Video Clip

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