Merah, the matriarch of the Sumatran orangutan family here at the Zoo, is fabulous at 55! 🍍🍹☀️Merah was born in May 1969 at a zoo in the Netherlands and came to St. Louis in 1992. She's grandmother to infant Forest and mother to two members of the Zoo's orangutan family, Rubih, 19, and Ginger, 9.Median life expectancy for a female Sumatran orangutan is 33.5, so Merah is one of only a few orangutans in their 50s at Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) zoos.Merah can often be found at the ora