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Lifestyle
Diane Bell

Column: Zoo birth boosts population of critically endangered orangutans

SAN DIEGO -- Births are spreading New Year's cheer at the San Diego Zoo and Safari Park.

Zoo fans were saddened when charismatic 26-year-old orangutan, Satu, collapsed and died Dec. 22 while fighting an illness thought to be cancer. Since his birth at the Zoo in 1995, he had sired two offspring, a male and a female.

Thirteen days after his death, Satu once again became a father.

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