The breast of care for baby ape Sibu

€50k effort involved feeding lessons from human mums

- BY GORDON DEEGAN

VITAL LESSON Breastfeeding mothers were brought in to help Sibu's, inset, mother Mujur

DUBLIN Zoo last year spent €50,000 on two months of intensive, round-the-clock nursery care that ensured the survival of an infant Bornean orangutan, Sibu Junior (SJ).

The 2024 annual report for the Zoological Society of Ireland documents the lengths that Dublin Zoo care staff went to in a bid to ensure that SJ survived.