Benji the orangutan loves chewing and has made homemade gum out a piece of cardboard box.<br /><br />The Borneo orangutan was captured chewing and inspecting the makeshift gum at his home in the Dudley Zoo in the West Midlands.<br /><br />But he clearly has forgotten his manners – the great ape can be heard chewing from a distance.<br /><br />Benji is set to celebrate his 41st birthday this November.<br /><br />He was born in 1977 at Duisburg zoo, Germany. In 1978 he transferred to Wuppertal Zoo before a move to Ireland in 1994.<br /><br />Benji arrived in Dudley in 1996.<br /><br />The footage was captured on April 6.
