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Orangutan releases its debut single! Have you heard it yet?

Updated on: 21 August,2016 09:23 AM IST  | 
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An orangutan at an Australian zoo has released its debut single by interacting with a music-making application aimed at raising awareness for World Orangutan Day, which fell on Friday

Orangutan releases its debut single! Have you heard it yet?

Kluet

Canberra: An orangutan at an Australian zoo has released its debut single by interacting with a music-making application aimed at raising awareness for World Orangutan Day, which fell on Friday.


Kluet. Pic/Adelaide Zoo’s FB page
Kluet. Pic/Adelaide Zoo’s FB page


Kluet, a 20-year-old Sumatran orangutan from the Adelaide Zoo, composed his first song — Give Me a Klue.


Pij Olijnyk, a primate keeper at the Adelaide Zoo and a producer for Kluet’s single, said the song was comparable to some renowned modern jazz. “There are certainly nods to a couple of classic jazz songs in there.”

The song is being sold on Adelaide Zoo’s website where people who buy it can pay whatever they want for it, with the money going toward supporting the zoo’s three orangutans.

4k-7k
Sumatran orangutans left in the wild

1,000
of them die a year due to habitat loss

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