Orangutans in Indonesia

• Orangutans in Indonesia

Orangutans, along with chimpanzees, are considered the most intelligent animals on Earth after humans. They are endangered in the wild, mainly due to the ongoing habitat destruction.

These magnificent photos were taken at the Indonesian Center for the rehabilitation of orphaned, rescued from captivity and injured orangutans.

The purpose of this center, which is located in Sumatra, Indonesia - rehabilitation of these intelligent monkeys and return them back into the wild. Since the advent of the center in 1999, more than 220 orangutans were returned to the forest.

The organization regularly withdraws kids orangutans in animal traders, who, in turn, buy orphaned apes from poachers.

Orangutans have the longest childhood period among all animals (except humans), often remain with their mothers until 6-7 years. And they are completely dependent on their mothers for the first two years of his life. This unusually long childhood is due to the way of life of orangutans: other monkeys after the departure of the mother remains in the family (or pack), and orangutans to single you need to be well prepared for independent life.

So when poachers take away the little orangutan from the family, it affects their development disastrously.

By the way, the word "orangutan" is used mainly in colloquial speech, the word "orangutan" is used in zoology.

This is one of the closest to the human DNA homology monkeys.

Earlier orangutans lived throughout Southeast Asia, and nowadays only in Borneo and Sumatra.

This Sumatran orangutans, who are in rehab. As can be seen, the time they spend in cells, apparently by another here in any way.

Before release into the wild, the rehabilitation center professionals teach young orangutans survive in the forest to look for edible plants, distinguish inedible and dangerous things, like to hide from predators. Training continues for many months and may even last for several years. Center experts believe that orangutans mother would have taught them the same way.

The hind limbs are short, front, on the other hand, long, reaching to the ankles.

to practice. Time to go home.

orangutans live up to 30 years in captivity, sometimes much longer.

Almost all my life they spend on trees, which move with a very long reach (their scale - up to 2 m - much higher than the growth of monkey), helping feet currently. Interestingly, the orangutans are so adapted to life in the trees, even the water is usually drunk from the leaves, hollows, or just lick after the rain with his coat.

In the rare cases where the orangutans still come down to the ground, then move on all fours. At night, orangutans build nests for sleeping, usually every time new.

This is quite big. And all he can, according to the staff of the center. It is time to release into the wild. To the place of new residence, he was taken in a container.

is inconvenient, but will have to wait.

In Sumatra, there were only 14,000 orangutans. The reasons for the disappearance of species - poaching and the destruction of their habitats. Thousands of square kilometers of forests and peat bogs being destroyed to make way for palm plantations. About palm oil have heard? It is just about it.

So destroyed the natural habitat of the smart monkeys, who live mainly in trees.

The forests are destroyed and all planted with palm trees.

Some orangutans get into a rehabilitation center with injuries. That's just an employee shows on X-ray bullets of unknown origin. Total them you monkey was more than 60!