A redhead looks down at her arm, being held gently by her male companion. She runs her long fingers across the inside of her elbow. He rests his round chin sweetly on her forearm. They spend a lot of time together — that’s demonstrated by the way they fall and fit into one another’s crevices. They lean into each other; the soft side of an elbow becomes a pillow.
Bonnie and Kyle, two orangutans at the Smithsonian National Zoological Park in Washington, D.C., have been living together for six years. They share their quarters, the Great Ape House and the Think Tank, with four other orangutans, and onlookers are aplenty during visiting hours, but they’re not shy about their affection. Any volunteer who spends time with the orangs can tell you a story about having watched the two lovers engage in a romp. They do it out in the open for all to see. But sex is never simple. Not unlike humans, primate keeper Megan Anderson says with a smile, “they’re complicated.”
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