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Toddler drops bottle near orangutan at LA Zoo: Watch what happens next

By FOX 11 Digital Team
Updated  February 22, 2023 2:16pm EST
Pets and Animals
FOX 11

Orangutan retrieves bottle dropped by toddler at LA Zoo

A clever orangutan fashioned some paper into a hook to retrieve a baby bottle dropped into a pool of water at Los Angeles Zoo.

LOS ANGELES - An orangutan at the Los Angeles Zoo got creative to receive a baby bottle dropped into a pool of water by a toddler on Feb. 17.

The clever primate fashioned some paper into a hook in order to reach the bottle, which was on the other side of a fence.

CaShawnna Wright shared video of the incident on TikTok with the text "my son dropped his bottle near the orangutans at the zoo, watch what happens next."

The video shows the crafty ape using its improvised tool to get the bottle.

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Wright said that it was the first time she has taken her son to the zoo.

Crafty orangutan retrieves bottle dropped by toddler at LA Zoo

"I decided to record the video because I thought it would be something my dad, who passed away recently, would have liked to see," Wright added.

Orangutans are among the most intelligent primates. The endangered species use a variety of sophisticated tools and construct elaborate sleeping nests each night from branches and foliage.