Thread: Devoted Denver zookeeper enlists team of doctors to save orangutan's life

Sally emerged last month from her white room at the Denver Zoo into a maze of logs and rope, leaning on her fists, both of them closed loosely as if they cradled buzzing flies.

The 44-year-old Sumatran orangutan ate some oatmeal and peanut butter in the exhibit, studied people on the other side of the glass, and slipped her long fingers into a concrete barrel full of bubble-bath. She scooped up drifts of foam and ate it, giving her a white beard and mustache, and mugged like Lucille Ball for her audience.

She was back to her old self, said Cindy Cossaboon, Sally's principal zookeeper, back to being a "very strong, stubborn woman" who finds loud noises rude and who likes to comb the long, coppery hair that shrouds her body and gathers on her scalp in a rendition of the mop-top.

rest - interesting how they saved her - http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_19895931