article_snippet.sent: We all need a helping hand sometimes, and nobody more so than Kecil the baby orangutan, who had a tough start to life after his mother and another surrogate mother rejected Kecil.
article_snippet.sent: Taking care: Maggie, 53, wraps a protective arm around Kecil the baby orangutan who Maggie has been raising for the past ten months after the one-year-old ape mother and a surrogate mother both rejected the one-year-old ape .
article_snippet.sent: But the elder orangutan quickly returned, at which point Kecil quietened down and scooted over to join Maggie, reports the Chicago Sun Times.
article_snippet.sent: In a final attempt to find a parent for Kecil, Kecil was handed over to Maggie, the oldest orangutan in North America, who has already raised four children of a second surrogate own, and a fifth surrogate which was given to a second surrogate in 2002.
article_snippet.sent: Getting into the swing of things: Keepers said when Kecil and Maggie were first put into Kecil and Maggie new enclosure, the older ape would wander too far ahead, and Kecil would get lost, but the pair have now learned to stick close to one another .
article_snippet.sent: Kecil really needs Maggie to learn how to be an orangutan.'
highlights_snippet.sent: Kecil the one-year-old orangutan was taken to Chicago zoo after being rejected by Kecil mother and surrogate mother .
  