Editing Orangutan (section)

=== In captivity ===

[[File:The Female Orang - Utan.png|thumb|right|upright|alt= Sketch of the female orangutan known as Jenny sitting in a chair|''The Female Orang – Utan'' ([[Jenny (orangutan)|Jenny]] sitting in a chair)<ref name=vanWyhe2015/> {{Circa|1830s}}]]

By the early 19th century, orangutans were being kept in captivity. In 1817, an orangutan joined several other animals in London's [[Exeter Exchange]]. He rejected the company of other animals, aside from a dog, and preferred to be with humans. He was occasionally taken on coach rides clothed in a [[smock-frock]] and hat and even given drinks at an inn where he behaved politely for the hosts.<ref name="cribb"/>{{rp|64–65}} The [[London Zoo]] housed a female orangutan named [[Jenny (orangutan)|Jenny]] who was dressed in human clothing and learned to drink tea. She is remembered for her meeting with [[Charles Darwin]] who compared her reactions to those of a human child.<ref name=vanWyhe2015>{{Cite journal|last1=van Wyhe|first1=John|author-link=John van Wyhe|last2=Kjærgaard|first2=Peter C.|date=1 June 2015|title=Going the whole orang: Darwin, Wallace and the natural history of orangutans|journal=Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences|language=en|volume=51|pages=53–63|doi=10.1016/j.shpsc.2015.02.006|issn=1369-8486|doi-access=free|pmid=25861859}}</ref><ref name=Zimmer2015>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/phenomena/2015/04/21/when-darwin-met-another-ape/|title=When Darwin Met Another Ape|last=Zimmer|first=Carl|date=21 April 2015|publisher=National Geographic Society|language=en|access-date=24 February 2020|archive-date=7 June 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200607041644/https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/phenomena/2015/04/21/when-darwin-met-another-ape/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Zoos and circuses in the Western world would continue to use orangutans and other [[simian]]s as sources for entertainment, training them to behave like humans at [[Chimpanzees' tea party|tea parties]] and to perform tricks. Notable orangutan "character actors" include: Jacob and Rosa of the [[Tierpark Hagenbeck]] in Hamburg, Germany, in the early 20th century; [[Joe Martin (orangutan)|Joe Martin]] of [[Universal City Zoo]] in the 1910s and 1920s; and [[Jiggs (orangutan)|Jiggs]] of the [[San Diego Zoo]] in the 1930s and 1940s.<ref name="cribb"/>{{rp|187–89, 193–94}}<ref name="showman">{{Cite book |last=Robeson |first=Dave |title=Al G. Barnes, Master Showman, as told by Al G. Barnes |publisher=The Caxton Printers, Ltd. |year=1935 |location=Caldwell, Idaho |pages=102–103 |language=en-us |chapter= |lccn=35012032 |oclc=598387}}</ref> [[Animal rights]] groups have urged a stop to such acts, considering them abusive.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nomoremonkeybusiness.com/ |title=Animal Actors |publisher=[[PETA]] |access-date=28 January 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100303121336/http://www.nomoremonkeybusiness.com/ |archive-date=3 March 2010 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Starting in the 1960s, zoos became more concerned with education and orangutans' exhibits were designed to mimic their natural environment and let them display their natural behaviours.<ref name="cribb"/>{{rp|185, 206}} [[Ken Allen]], an orangutan of the San Diego Zoo, became world famous in the 1980s for multiple escapes from his enclosures. He was nicknamed "the [[Harry Houdini|hairy Houdini]]" and was the subject of a fan club, T-shirts, bumper stickers and a song titled ''The Ballad of Ken Allen''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/36745764/the-missing-lynx-and-five-other-animal-escapees-including-ken-allen-the-orangutan|title=The missing lynx and five other animal escapees including Ken Allen the Orangutan|last=Middleton|first=Duncan|date=7 August 2016|website=[[BBC Newsbeat]]|language=en-GB|access-date=25 December 2018|archive-date=25 December 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181225175722/http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/36745764/the-missing-lynx-and-five-other-animal-escapees-including-ken-allen-the-orangutan|url-status=live}}</ref>

Galdikas reported that her cook was sexually assaulted by a captive male orangutan.<ref name=WranPete96>{{Cite book |last1=Wrangham |first1=Richard W |last2=Peterson |first2=Dale |year=1996 |title=Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence |publisher=[[Houghton Mifflin]] |isbn=978-0-395-69001-7 | page = [https://archive.org/details/demonicmalesapes00wran/page/137 137] | url = https://archive.org/details/demonicmalesapes00wran|url-access=registration }}</ref> The ape may have suffered from a skewed species identity and forced copulation is a standard mating strategy for low-ranking male orangutans.<ref name="SchaickSex">{{cite book|title=Among Orangutans: Red Apes and the Rise of Human Culture|url=https://archive.org/details/amongorangutans00care|url-access=registration|first=Carel |last=van Schaik|publisher=[[Harvard University Press]]|year=2004|page=[https://archive.org/details/amongorangutans00care/page/88 88]|isbn=9780674015777}}</ref> American animal trafficker [[Frank Buck (animal collector)|Frank Buck]] claimed to have seen human mothers acting as [[wet nurse]]s to orphaned orangutan babies in hopes of keeping them alive long enough to sell to a trader, which would be an instance of [[human–animal breastfeeding]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Buck |first=Frank |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43207125 |title=Bring 'em back alive : the best of Frank Buck |date=2000 |publisher=Texas Tech University Press |others=Steven Lehrer |isbn=0-89672-430-1 |location=Lubbock, Tex. |page=37 |oclc=43207125}}</ref>