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Aww!

A baby Sumatran Orangutan named Tripa is really attached to his mom!

In fact, since Tripa's birth, his mom Emma has not let him out of her sight!

And he was born all the way back on October 19.

The two spend their time together at the United Kingdom’s Chester Zoo.

Young Orangutans are the only other species, besides humans, whose childhoods can last up to eight years!

So it isn't any surprise to zookeepers that Tripa is by his mama's side.

After all, he depends on her for food, transportation, and love!

The three keys to any mammal's heart!!

The Sumatran Orangutan is an endangered species, so we're SUPER glad this baby is being carefully watched by his mama.

Take care of that cutie!

[Image via Chester Zoo.]

Tags: baby, chester, mother, orangutan, relationship, son, zoo

Anne Hathaway is using her celebrity status to support the orangutans!

Along with a whole mess of other stars!

The Les Miz star has signed a page right out of the script from her movie Ella Enchanted, and is planning to donate it to the Sumatran Orangutan Society's auction.

Tags: anne hathaway, auction, charity, orangutan, seth green

Yep…Planet of the Apes inches closer and closer! LOLz!

Orangutans at the Smithsonian National Zoo are being enriched through the use of iPads and apps specifically geared for apes.

Tags: ipad, orangutan, smithsonian national zoo, technology, zoo

It took TEN YEARS but the Taru Jurug Zoo will finally get the smoking orangutan off cigs.

Tori is 15 years old but she's been smoking for a decade. Tourists would throw lit cigarettes at her and watch in stupidity awe as Tori puffed away.

Tags: health, indonesia, orangutan, smoking, taru jurug zoo, tori, zoo

Puyul the 40-year-old orangutan broke his leg when he fell out of a tree.

Conservationists found him and brought him to the Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Program (SOCP) and treated him.

He was put on fluids, x-rayed and even had a random air rifle pellet removed from his body.

Indonesia has lost about half of its rain forests in the last 50 years.

That means less trees and maybe that means less branches to grab and that would mean more falling monkeys.

So there's another reason to save the rain forests.

Can't wait til Puyul is up and running again!

[Image via AP Images.]

Tags: broken, conservationists, health, indonesia, leg, orangutan, puyul, rain forests

OMG!

What a cutie!!

Look at that little diaper she's in!

Check out the above video to see a sweet, little baby orangutan who was just born at a zoo in Indonesia.

Tags: ape, baby, cute, new, orangutan, young, zoo

Remember, Shirley? The orangutan from a Malaysian zoo who has a smoking habit?

Well we're glad to report she'll be quitting her smoking habit!

Shirley was rescued by authorities from the zoo and taken to a new sanctuary where the zoo director assures that she will not be provided with anymore cigarettes because:

"…smoking is not normal behaviour for orangutans".

Yeah, we'd think so.

Shirley is quarantined at the zoo as she tries to quit cold turkey.

She's apparently not depressed and doing well so far.

Tags: orangutan, quitting, smoking, zoo