Sandra, covered with a blanket, gestures inside her cage at Buenos Aires Zoo in this Dec. 8, 2010, file photo. Marcos Brindicci / Reuters
A court in Argentina ruled that a shy orangutan who has lived in a zoo in Buenos Aires for the past 20 years can be granted the right to not be held without cause and should be allowed to live in semi-freedom with other large primates.
Sandra currently lives at a privately owned zoo in Buenos Aires where she has spent the last 20 years. The Sumatran orangutan was brought to the zoo in 1994 from Germany, where she was born in captivity in 1986, but had always tried to avoid the public by hiding within her enclosure.
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