Orphaned baby orangutans learn to climb, forage at Borneo's new forest school

[Judi Lynn]

By Farid M Ibrahim
Posted 21 minutes ago

The Orangutan Forest School is a new rehabilitation project for orphaned orangutans, the victims of Indonesia's palm oil and coal industries.

The school's eight "students", aged between 11 months and nine years old, will learn how to survive in the wild in preparation for their eventual release back into the rainforest.

The project is being run by the international animal welfare organisation Four Paws, which is working alongside local partner Jejak Pulang and the Indonesian Government.

"The goal is to train these orangutans so that in a few years, when they reach the appropriate age, they will be able to return to a natural forest and live there completely free and independent," said Four Paws' primatologist Dr Signe Preuschoft.



More:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-05-26/first-school-year-has-begun-for-orangutan-orphans-in-borneo/9783652

[Duppers]

1. The Orangutans

And gorillas are my favorite primates.
Chimps are too much like us.