Report of orang utan sexually assaulted by zoo employee a hoax

The fake report used a photo of a man and an orang utan to illustrate the news of a Surabaya zoo keeper who had purportedly impregnated an orangutan named Marylin.

JAKARTA: A report claiming that an employee of the Surabaya Zoo sexually assaulted an orang utan, resulting in the alleged victim's pregnancy, is a hoax, the zoo’s chief has confirmed. 

Zoo chief Heri Purwanto debunked the report by the World News Daily Network on Saturday, saying that the zoo was not housing an orang utan named Marilyn and that the named officials were not employees of the zoo.