{"id":13104,"date":"2023-07-13T07:38:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T13:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shieldagency.com\/blog\/?p=13104"},"modified":"2023-06-21T12:46:42","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T18:46:42","slug":"curious-orangutan-uses-hand-gestures-in-a-quest-to-look-inside-womans-purse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shieldagency.com\/blog\/curious-orangutan-uses-hand-gestures-in-a-quest-to-look-inside-womans-purse\/","title":{"rendered":"Curious Orangutan Uses Hand Gestures in a Quest to Look Inside Woman\u2019s Purse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodnewsnetwork.org\/curious-orangutan-uses-hand-gestures-in-a-quest-to-look-inside-womans-purse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Good News Network<\/a> | By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodnewsnetwork.org\/author\/andycorbley\/\">Andy Corbley<\/a> | Jun 14, 2023 | Curious Orangutan | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shieldagency.com\/other-insurance.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Travel Insurance\">Travel Insurance<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When Amber the curious orangutan met a visitor called Taylor, her day became focused on a single objective\u2014finding out what was inside her purse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Filmed at the Louisville Zoo in Kentucky, the Curious Orangutan&#8217;s gestures are simply too human to believe, such as gesturing with her index finger like an overly proud security guard at a concert security screening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then, lifting her chin as if she were trying to look over a ledge, it becomes clear to Taylor she\u2019s interested in what\u2019s inside her small shoulder bag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A curious Orangutan Notices the bag of Candy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>As she begins to rifle through it on Amber\u2019s behalf, the orangutan spots a bag of sweets and immediately knows that\u2019s what she wants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The whole interaction is amazing as she walks to the edge of the enclosure and begins to show Taylor how she can give him the sweets through the keeper\u2019s area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>WATCH the whole video of the Curious Orangutan below\u2026&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hilarious video shows Orangutan using hand signals to ask a visitor to give her - some sweets | SWNS\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t6Qk56_2k2w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Orangutan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia\">From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This article is about the group of primates. For other uses, see&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Orangutan_(disambiguation)\">Orangutan (disambiguation)<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Orangutans<\/strong>&nbsp;are&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hominidae\">great apes<\/a>&nbsp;native to the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rainforest\">rainforests<\/a>&nbsp;of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Indonesia\">Indonesia<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Malaysia\">Malaysia<\/a>. They are now found only in parts of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Borneo\">Borneo<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sumatra\">Sumatra<\/a>, but during the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pleistocene\">Pleistocene<\/a>&nbsp;they ranged throughout&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Southeast_Asia\">Southeast Asia<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/South_China\">South China<\/a>. Classified in the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Genus\">genus<\/a>&nbsp;<em><strong>Pongo<\/strong><\/em>, orangutans were originally considered to be one species. From 1996, they were divided into two species: the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bornean_orangutan\">Bornean orangutan<\/a>&nbsp;(<em>P. pygmaeus<\/em>, with three subspecies) and the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sumatran_orangutan\">Sumatran orangutan<\/a>&nbsp;(<em>P. abelii<\/em>). A third species, the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tapanuli_orangutan\">Tapanuli orangutan<\/a>&nbsp;(<em>P. tapanuliensis<\/em>), was identified definitively in 2017. 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