A randy zoo keeper has been caught on camera having s*x with a female orangutan ape and impregnating the animal in the process.
The 38-year-old zookeeper impregnated a female orangutan
A zoo keeper at Indonesia鈥檚 Surabaya zoo has landed in trouble after he was arrested and charged with impregnating a female orangutan, reports the Kalimantan Press.
The 38-year-old zoo keeper was filmed in full action by a series of hidden cameras put in place by the zoo鈥檚 security officials after doubts emerged about the man鈥檚 devious actions towards the zoo animals. He was caught on camera having sexual intercourse with the animals.
鈥淪ome animals seemed sexually aroused when it was time to feed them鈥� explains Akhiroel Yahya, employee of the zoo for 14 years. 鈥淏ut what made us most suspicious was when we discovered Marylin, our oldest orangutan, was pregnant. She has never been in contact with any other orangutans because of her aggressive nature, so it didn鈥檛 make any sense鈥� he acknowledges, visibly troubled by the news.
Then out of curiosity and desire to know, the zoo officials decided on what to do.
鈥淎t first, we clearly did not comprehend what had happened,鈥� admits the zoo鈥檚 director, Abdoel Hakim. 鈥淢arilyn has been secluded for the past 10 years, it was a total mystery,鈥� he acknowledges. 鈥淚t is only when we placed several hidden cameras that we learned the horrible truth鈥� he admits, visibly angered by the whole situation.
However, the zoo keeper had denied everything. He denied any wrong doing on his part.
鈥淗e said everything he had done was consensual,鈥� explains police chief Abubakar Jaar. 鈥淗e said he loved each and everyone of the animals and was very sorry he had impregnated the orangutan,鈥� he told local reporters. 鈥淗e says he did not know orangutans could get pregnant from humans,鈥� he added.
鈥淐ontrary to popular belief, the orangutan species is much closer to the human species than chimpanzees. We share practically the same DNA code, with only minute differences, which could explain the orangutan falling pregnant from this man鈥� explains Paleobiologist Bachtiar Pado Panghulu, of the University of Jakarta.
鈥淧articularly in Indonesia, the genetic profile of some of the population is extremely close to the orangutan species, leading us to believe they鈥檙e might have been a common ancestor to both species only a few hundred thousand years ago,鈥� he admits.