Now the 12-week-old male has been taken in by the European specialist orangutan creche at Monkey World – Ape Rescue Centre in ...
Budi the baby orangutan was rescued in December after being kept in a chicken cage for months. Now, he is slowly recovering at an animal rehab center in West Borneo. Carly Marsh reports.
Michaela Strachan and Steve Leonard present a series featuring orphaned and rescued orangutans in Borneo. Steve tries to rescue a baby orangutan being illegally held in a village. Show more ...
The current foster mother for the baby orangutans is Oshine, who was rescued from South Africa, having been smuggled from the wild and kept as a pet. Another key focus of the centre is to make ...
Kiwi is the second baby orangutan to join the creche at the Dorset ape rescue centre for orphaned and rejected youngsters in recent weeks. Monkey World Kiwi spent the crossing with her carer from ...
He remembers coming across Hope, a Sumatran orangutan who had been shot with 74 pellets. She was blinded, and she had a baby who was a few months old at most. The rescue team drove 12 hours to go ...
Orangutans share a staggering 96.4 per cent ... It was really lovely and I didn’t want to leave – it felt incredible and I was crying so much because I couldn't take it in." ...
A baby orangutan ... European creche at ape rescue centre Monkey World in Dorset, which specialises in caring for orphaned or vulnerable infants. Four other young orangutans born in zoos in ...
The team at Monkey World found that when their rescued young orangutans were looked after by a foster mother, they were able to learn mothering skills. “Our creche aims to break the cycle of ...