Breastfeeding women try to show orangutan how to care for baby at Dublin zoo

Nora Murphy with her baby, Elodi. Although the tuition did have an effect, Mujur did not hold her infant in quite the correct place for feeding, the zoo said. Photograph: Nora Murphy

When staff at Dublin zoo discovered an orangutan named Mujur was pregnant they decided to stage maternal workshops.

The 19-year-old female had not sufficiently bonded with either of her previous infants, who died in 2019 and 2022, so when she became pregnant earlier this year the zoo enlisted breastfeeding human mothers to try to show her how it was done.