ARE ORANGUTANS EMPATHETIC?
It was a usual day at the Nyaru Menteng forest school, where young orangutans were learning from one another while their human surrogate mothers looked on from below.
July 1st is #InternationalFruitDay!
Orangutans are typically frugivorous, with over 100 types of fruit recorded in their diet from any one site.
Let’s Celebrate #InternationalFruitDay (Photo credit: BOSF 2015)
For the whole month of July we are celebrating this fact and for every donation we receive, we will send you a special personalised e-certificate! For as little as $5, you can help us buy fruit for 10 of our baby orangutans for a day!
It was a usual day at the Nyaru Menteng forest school, where young orangutans were learning from one another while their human surrogate mothers looked on from below.
Our Post-Release Monitoring (PRM) team at Camp Himba Pambelum in Bukit Baka Bukit Raya National Park (TNBBBR), Central Kalimantan, encountered Suci, a young female orangutan, three times back in 2023.
Kopral has been receiving treatment at the clinic since April 2023 due to wounds on the sole of his right foot and fungus between his toes.
