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BATANG at the Washington National Zoo (Smithsonian)
Batang is a Bornean orangutan. She was born in December 1996 and came to the National Zoo from Topeka Zoo, on loan from Brookfield Zoo.
She weighs about 110 pounds and has white circles around her eyes. She is bold and curious, often studying the operating mechanisms of the doors and walls of her enclosures.
Batang and Kyle came to the Zoo in November 2004 as part of the American Zoo and Aquarium Association's Species Survival Plan for orangutans. If all goes well, Batang may become pregnant in the next two or three years.
nationalzoo.si.edu
