Jamie Gumbrecht

On March 30, a Bornean orangutan was born at Zoo Atlanta. I wrote a small brief about the new arrival for an endangered species, then updated it a few days later when zoo officials said he’d been removed from his mother for hand-rearing. When I asked a few weeks later how the little fellow was doing, I heard these words: “The nurses from Children’s Healthcare are so great…” The…what?

Really: nurses from Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta had stepped in to hold the infant orangutan, just as his mother would.

Read the story: Zoo Atlanta orangutan survives with human care

See the photos by AJC photographer Vino Wong: Baby orangutan born at Zoo Atlanta