Fourth Orang-utan

Heavy curtains draped a cage in Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo last week. Zoomen tiptoed up, peeked, whispered excitedly. Inside what looked like a ridiculously shriveled old shanty Irishman-- wrinkled of face and belly, with reddish sideburns and a reddish fringe about its round, bald head--clung to its 110-lb. mother's hairy leg and squeaked. Daughter of the Zoo's Jiggs and Nancy, it was 10 in. long, weighed 2 1/4lb. and was, so far as zoo officials knew, the fourth orangutan ever born in a U. S. zoo. Zoomen had to leave it strictly alone because an orangutan mother when frightened will squeeze her baby to death. Mother & baby, it was announced, are worth some $3,000. They would be worth more if the baby had been a male, but Director Floyd Young did not care. "We wanted a baby," said he, "and we got it."

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