Lamandau’s orangutans -a healthy growing population!
Category: Lamandau River Wildlife Reserve, Lamdandau Vet, Orangutans, Uncategorized | Date: Jul 29 2009 | By: orangutanfoundation
Thanks for your recent questions and sorry for the slow reponse!
News straight from the field is that Lady Di is healthy and is well enough to be released this Saturday! I visited her last week and took these pictures.
Borneo female orangutan -Lady Di and infant (photo:Orangutan Foundation)
Dr Fikri and the camp staff have taken really good care of Lady Di and while she has had to spend nights in a cage so that she doesn’t go off and cause further damage to herself, the staff let her out during the day and they keep a close watch on her!
Regarding who is the father of Sawit’s offspring. We know that it’s a wild male, but he doesn’t stay around camp. Dr Fiqri is delighted to report that Sawit has given birth to a healthy baby girl (Sawit was more pregnant than we suspected!). Our Field Assistants are looking for name suggestions for Sawit’s new infant. It has to start with S and to be Indonesian. Please leave suggestions as a comments.
Thanks,
June
Programmes Manager
Tags: Borneo, forests, Orangutans, Released
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One Response to “Lamandau’s orangutans -a healthy growing population!”
Theresa, on 29 Jul 2009
Great news about Lady Di! I’m sure she is eager to be back out in the forest.
I think Sari is a beautiful name for Sawit’s new baby girl. It means “essence”.
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