Doctors tend to orangutan at Melbourne Zoo

By Julia Medew
Updated May 18 2015 - 10:33am, first published April 16 2015 - 5:49pm
Suma the orangutan undergoes a health examination on her ears, eyes, blood tests and X-rays on her arthritic joints. Photo: Justin McManus
Suma the orangutan undergoes a health examination on her ears, eyes, blood tests and X-rays on her arthritic joints. Photo: Justin McManus

If you could look past her long wiry red hair and thick black skin, Suma looked very similar to the human patients Dr Kevin Moriarty and Dr Marinis Pirpiris usually care for.