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.
Today at 8 a.m Hamzah and Berlian were flown to Kehje Sewen Forest by helicopter from Indonesian Air Force with the pilots, Letkol Pnb. Hendro Arieh H. S.Sos, Kapten Pnb. Didi Rahmat S and Lettu Pnb. Nugroho Widyanto.
Hamzah, Berlian and the team arrived in Camp 103 and directly transported to Gunung Belah and put them into the acclimatization cages for a night.
Tomorow at 9 a.m they will be released.
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.
