Photo Credit – ABC Melbourne
A nursing mom traveled recently to the Melbourne Zoo in Australia with her family over the weekend to celebrate her older child’s third birthday. She caught the attention of different type of on-lookers though.
Her three-month-old son became hungry so she found a private area within the zoo to begin to nurse him. The surprising part is the on-lookers were two orangutans on exhibit at the zoo.
"My 13-week-old got hungry while we were in the orangutan enclosure, so I took him into a quiet corner away from the crowd to feed," Elizabeth Hunt Burrett the mom of two wrote on Facebook. "Then this happened . . . This mummy came to investigate, and she watched the whole feed. It was the most beautiful thing!"
While nursing her son, she realized two orangutans were paying attention. “It started off with just one, then another one came over who seemed to be a bit older and shooed this one off for a little while,” Elizabeth told 774 ABC Melbourne. “And [the older one] came over and gave me a bit of a nod…I felt so proud and I felt she was proud of me and…I don’t know. It was just amazing.”
Were those onlooking orangutans moms themselves? We don know for sure, but it goes to show, public breastfeeding is a magical and intriging experience to more than just people.