Pregnant orangutan’s gift list: Bubble bath, Dolly Parton CD
WACO, Texas — A Texas zoo has set up a gift registry for an expectant orangutan couple, complete with bubble bath and a Dolly Parton CD.
The Cameron Park Zoo in Waco is requesting several items for Mei and KJ on the Target registry, which also includes the movie “Zootopia,” stuffed animals, a musical crib mobile, SpongeBob SquarePants bubble bath and books. All are under $25, and several have already been purchased.
“When Mei first got here, she was young, 10 years, she loved the movie ‘Jungle Book,’” Zoo curator of exhibits and programs Terri Cox said. “That was the one thing that would bring her up to the front until she got used to her surroundings.”
Cox said each of the items on the gift registry was selected to help provide enrichment for the new arrival and other zoo animals. Enrichment items are for determining successfulness in stimulating the animal mentally and physically, and are tracked per animal.