Benji, the large Borneo Orangutan male from the Dudley zoo in the West Midlands, England enjoys to chew, but what can you do if you haven’t got any real gum? Not a problem for this clever Orangutan. He just rips off some cardboard from the box and uses that as chewing gum substitute. The handsome fellow is enjoying it that much; you can hear the noise he is making and see his huge teeth. His mother obviously never told him to close his mouth while chewing.

In between chewing, he has a look by having the piece on the end of his lip and glancing down towards the piece of paper. He keeps chewing when he lies down, but what he does next is not for the faint-hearted. He sticks his substitute gum into his nostril, pushes it in a little more has a good sniff and then he takes it back out again. Yes you’'ve seen it

correctly he is putting it back into his mouth – eek and continues to chew with pleasure. Benji had his 40th birthday on the 6t November 2017. He was born in 1977 at Duisburg zoo, Germany. In 1978 he transferred to Wuppertal Zoo, Germany. In 1994 he moved to Dublin zoo, Ireland and in 1996 he moved to Dudley, UK. Dudley zoo has one other male called Jorong in a different enclosure from Benji. There is also the female orangutan Jazz with her 7-year-old daughter called Sprout. Sprout is very lovable and very clever.

Watch her here on Rumble as a Baby orangutan jumps onto self-made crash mat! Dudley Zoological Gardens is a 40-acre zoo located within the grounds of Dudley Castle in the town of Dudley, in the Black Country region of the West Midlands, England. In the past couple of years more and more has been done to improve the zoo with some great new enclosures.