Orangutan Celebrates 45th Birthday with Hollywood-Themed Toys and Treats

Storyful

27 March 2024 at 4:38 am

An orangutan at Phoenix Zoo celebrated her birthday with Hollywood-themed enrichment, footage released by the zoo on March 27 showed.

Bess the orangutan marked her 45th birthday “in style” with “Hollywood-themed behavioural enrichment,” the zoo said.

Bess also received “birthday bags filled with her regular diet” and “a delicious ice treat.”

Bess can be seen playing with a box made to look like a movie camera, and eating a treat which looks like an Academy Award. Credit: Phoenix Zoo via Storyful

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