New mom and zookeeper-turned-hero #WhitleeTurner breastfed her own baby to help teach orangutan Zoe how to nurse her young at the #MetroRichmondZoo in Virginia. 🍼⁠ ⁠ Lead zookeeper #JessicaGring worked with Zoe for months to try and show her how to nurse. She used a stuffed animal to show her the right way to hold and feed her baby, and repeatedly played videos of orangutans giving birth and taking care of their babies. She was still struggling with #breastfeeding, so Gring decided to make an usual, creative request for help— that's where Turner came in. ⁠ ⁠ Turner said, “I’ve done some animal training before but never modeled a behavior like this for an animal to learn. I felt honored to be asked and to be able to share my knowledge and model this behavior for her."⁠ ⁠ She began breastfeeding her own baby, Caleb, right in front of Zoe and made sure everything was visible so she could learn where to put her own baby, and how to get him to latch. Less than a day later, she successfully...