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She was a member of Tuan's Group before her move to Rio Safari Elche in 2016 where she later died in 2019.

California Consumer Do Not Sell My Personal Information. Nenette is one of the last orangutans living in a zoo to be born out of captivity. A keeper likens them to those visiting a relative in prison — which, when you come to think of it, is exactly what they are doing. She arrived from Borneo in 1972, has survived three mates and produced four offspring. Add the first question. A documentary on a 40-year-old orangutan that is locked behind bars.

We only see the visitors as occasional reflections in the glass, but we hear their recorded comments and conversations alongside interviews with the zoo keepers. A voyage into the museum's reserves, and part of the extra work involved to mount the expositions after the renovation of the Louvre in the 1980s, when the glass pyramid was added to the ... See full summary », Philibert films Zoology Gallery of the National Museum of Natural History (today known as the Great Gallery of Evolution) for a period of reforms which lasted from 1991 until 1994. Best known in the United States for “To Be and to Have” — his captivating 2002 portrait of a rural schoolteacher — Mr. Philibert has switched his gaze to a primate with rather less agency: a 40-year-old female orangutan in the zoo at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris.

Sadly, Lingga was rejected at birth by her mother and had to be hand reared. A child’s voice whispers “Nénette!,” and immediately we are in the patient and curious world of the French filmmaker Nicolas Philibert.

The zoo says orangutans in the wild have experienced sharp population declines in the past 20 years. Middle-aged Julien lives alone with his cat. Peter Brandt Nielsen. We only see the visitors as occasional reflections in the glass, but we hear their recorded comments and conversations alongside interviews with the zoo keepers. Along its corridors, inside its recording studios, with its producers, presenters, journalists and various guests. ... See full summary », A travelogue of Valparaiso, Chile, a city built on steep hills. Nénette. PARIS (AP) — Nenette, one of the world's oldest Borneo orangutans in captivity, has celebrated her 50th birthday at a zoo in Paris, where she has lived almost all her life. In French, with English subtitles. A filmmaker returns to Normandy thirty years after a working on a movie based on a local homicide and tries to find the actors who worked on the project. She is a mother of four and has survived three mates, and she bonds only with a few select keepers. Sign up for our free email newsletter with the latest coronavirus headlines, along with other news and weather around the Bay.