HONOLULU -- The Honolulu Zoo showed off Violet, the female orangutan brought there to be the companion of Rusti, for the first time Thursday.

Violet is little, about half the size of Rusti.

She is alone now in the zoo's new $700,000 orangutan enclosure. Violet will remain in quarantine for 30 days. Then, zookeepers will bring Rusti over to join her.

"We are hoping that it will be a very good match -- Match.com, one of those things," orangutan keeper Malia Davis said, laughing.

"Once we put them together, things can change and, of course, we are going to be monitoring that. If anything happens, we lock them up again and slowly introduce them," supervisor Maurice Bolosan said.

Violet and Rusti are in their 20s, so they will have a couple of decades of life together since orangutans can live to about age 50. They will not have offspring because both are neutered.

Violet arrived in Hawaii from the San Diego Zoo. The Honolulu Zoo Society and private donors paid for the new enclosure.