Photo Gallery Going Ape over Ujian
An orangutan in Heidelberg Zoo has attracted attention after teaching himself to whistle. Now the 14-year-old ape has recorded his first CD. Here keeper Bernd Kowalsky holds up a microphone to the primate star.
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Ujian apparently learned to whistle last summer.
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From simple notes he soon graduated to melodic phrases.
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Hanover Zoo's orangutan Kajan: Orangutans are highly intelligent creatures.
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Orangutans are native to Indonesia and Malaysia.
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Many orangutans draw or paint, such as Buschi in Germany's Osnabrück Zoo , seen here in a July 2007 photo.
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Gypsy the orangutan and her grandson Poppy enjoy a Sunday afternoon drawing session in a Tokyo zoo in this 2006 photo.
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However only a handful of orangutans have been known to whistle.
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Ujian puckers up: Proceeds from the sale of his CD will go to help renovate the zoo's ape house.
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