Orangutan Mesmerized By Breastfeeding Mom at Melbourne Zoo
Elizabeth Hunt Burrett was breastfeeding her 13-week-old son.
— -- An Australian mother had an unlikely audience while breastfeeding her infant son at the Melbourne Zoo.
An orangutan closely watched from inside one of the zoo’s exhibits as Elizabeth Hunt Burrett breastfed her now-14-week-old son, Eli.
"I was there for about 20 minutes and the orangutan watched the whole feed," Burrett told ABC News in an email.
Burrett, of Melbourne, was visiting the zoo to celebrate her older daughter's third birthday on Feb. 7, when she went off to the side to nurse Eli.
Soon enough, Burrett had garnered the orangutan’s attention, as well as other zoo-goers, who noticed how closely the orangutan was watching.
Burrett posted a photo of the moment on Facebook.
"Now everyone in Melbourne (well not everyone) has a picture of me feeding, as once one person saw what was going on, the word spread fast and they flocked to see what was happening," Burrett wrote alongside the caption. "I felt like I was on exhibit lol."
"It was the most beautiful thing," she wrote of her unlikely orangutan encounter.