Orangutan Refuses To Move For Weeks, Then Caretakers Notice What She’s Sitting On

A Mother’s Love

Understanding bloomed between them. Mara hadn’t gone mad or sick—she had made a choice. A protective one. Even though the infant wasn’t her own, or even her species, she chose to defend it with her entire being. “That’s why she wouldn’t let us near,” Ben murmured. “She thought we’d take the baby away.” Rosa touched her chest. “And she was right.”