Mom Shares Emotional Moment an Orangutan That Suffered Stillbirth Watches Her Breastfeed Son
When a British mom visiting a zoo in Vienna, Austria, stopped to breastfeed her baby, she gained support from the most unlikely source. A female orangutan in an enclosure came to sit beside her, holding her gaze and even raising a hand to the glass as if wanting to touch the little baby.
“It was one of the most surreal moments of my life that had me in tears,” mom Gemma Copeland explained to Love What Matters. Copeland was visiting Schönbrunn Zoo, the oldest zoo in the world, during a mini-break in January 2020 with her partner, Shane, and infant son, Jasper. It was nearing the end of the day; Copeland took a seat near the orangutans so that her son could watch the apes. (Caters News)