An orphaned orangutan is fed with a child's bottle after it was rescued from a forest when its mom died simply earlier than Christmas.
Paijo, a three-month-old male, is the youngest ape to ever be taken in by the Worldwide Animal Rescue Orangutan Centre in Ketapang, Borneo.
Rescue staff made a six hour journey to Randau Jekak in Sandai District after the newborn orangutan was discovered by a villager.
Three-month-old Paijo is the youngest ape to be taken in by the Worldwide Animal Rescue Orangutan Centre
Rescue staff made a six hour journey to Randau Jekak in Sandai District after a villager instructed them that somebody had handed him a child orangutan
He was taken again to the rescue centre and put right into a quarantine to make sure he's disease-free. A wound on Paijo's was patched up by rescuers
Rescuers will not be positive what occurred to Paijo's mom however are positive she by no means would have deserted her child if she have been alive.
Paijo was taken again to the centre and put right into a quarantine to make sure he's disease-free.
He'll now be despatched to a child orangutan 'college' to show him tips on how to survive within the wild. Rescuers hope he will probably be launched when he's an grownup.
IAR spokeswoman Lis Key stated: 'When a child orangutan is discovered by itself within the forest this can be very traumatised.
'The moms are fiercely protecting and normally infants stick with the mom for six or seven years. There isn't any manner a mom orangutan would go away its child.
'Child college is the place he'll meet different child orangutans. They are going to be taken into the forests and taught tips on how to be with different orangutans, forage for meals and climb timber.
'They study from one another all of the issues that their mom ought to have been in a position to train them.
He'll now be despatched to a 'child college' to show him tips on how to survive within the wild with out his mom
On the 'college' Paijo will meet different orphaned child orangutans the place they are going to be taught tips on how to forage for meals and climb timber
Orangutans are critically endangered in Borneo and there are estimated to be simply 1,500 left within the wild
'Orangutans reside in timber however some infants have been so badly handled they develop a worry of heights.
'They will additionally change into too reliant on one another, clinging and cuddling one another for assist.'
Each species of orangutans are classed as endangered. The World Large Fund for Nature estimates there are 45,000 to 69,000 Bornean orangutans and simply 7,500 Sumatran orangutans left on this planet.
The charity believes simply 1,500 Sumatran orangutans reside within the wild.
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