The male Orangutan named Bulu, born in 1976, was brought to Sri Lanka's zoological gardens in 1981 from the Rotterdam zoo in Netherlands. It belonged to a hybrid Borneo species.
Bulu has started showing abnormal behaviour several months ago and was diagnosed with a hernia in May. The veterinary surgeons of the zoo successfully performed a laparotomy in June on the primate, similar in age to a 70-year-old human, to save his life.
He has completely recovered from the surgery but fell due to the old age, the zoo officials said.
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