Overview
For many years we had supplied one of the world’s leading conservation zoological parks with a number of basic products from our range to enable them to carry out their daily tasks. One day when Alex was on site at the zoo, the coordinators looking after the large apes, asked him to come and view a situation they needed to address. After going behind the scenes in the Gorilla/Orangutan enclosure Alex was greeted with a juvenile Orangutan who, the keeper informed him, was causing an issue with their attempts to keep the heat in the enclosure during the cold months. Previously the zoo had been using standard PVC curtain in their doorways attached with basic rivets. The Orangutan in question was systematically tearing down these curtains and pulling out the rivets with her bare hands. The heat was escaping meaning some very cold large apes.
Solution
After offering and unsuccessfully trialing a few different solutions, all of which were proved to not work on apes with very strong fingers and a mischievous demeanor, Amarin finally hit upon a solution. Using some of the very thick, heavy reinforced rubber belting usually reserved for mining industries and industrial vehicle parts a set of two curtains were cut to size and fitted to the enclosure doorways. For the next few days, the Gorillas and Orangutans tried their best to tear down the curtains…they could not. They hung their very substantial body weight from the curtains trying to pull them down…they could not. These beautiful animals are, of course, strong enough to move the curtains to go in and out the enclosure but in the meantime all the hot air was kept inside making sure the apes were kept warm and comfortable in the colder months.
