Monday, July 3, 2000

The Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre


The Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre (Pusat Pemilhan Orang Utan Sepilok)


03-Jul-00


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The Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre (Pusat Pemilhan Orang Utan Sepilok)
At Sepilok, there a a center for re-introducing injured or exploited orangutans to the wild. A sign here detailed the 4 main stages of Orangutan rehabilitation:

  1. Quarantine: All Orangutans are given a battery of tests and isolated from the wild population to prevent the spread of disease

    All orangutans admitted into the Sepilok Wildlife Clinic are quarantined for 90 days. A thorough veterinary examination and TB [tuberculosis] tests are conducted. Blood is taken and screened for malaria and blood parasites and samples are frozen in the serum/plasma bank. Orangutans are given milk and vitamin supplements daily. They are also weighed and dewormed fortnightly and body measurements are taken quarterly.

  2. Indoor Nursery: After quarantine, All orangutans live in the indoor nursery until they are fit to live outside

    After quarantine, orangutans go into the indoor nursery. Here they live in individual cages and are taken into a common large cage for daily exercise, sunshine and to learn climbing and swinging skills. Their diet includes milk, assorted fruits and multi vitamin supplements. They are also weighed and dewormed and body measurements are taken quarterly. The critical age of an orangutan is from birth to 3 years.

  3. Outdoor Nursery: Here is where the rangers teach them the skills that will help them in the wild

    Most orangutans are ready to proceed to the outdoor nursery by six years of age. This is located about 45 minutes walk into the forest. To acclimatize they are placed into a big cage before being moved out to feeding platform 1 and gradually proceeding to platform 4. The orangutans are fed twice daily and they also forage in the forest for food and build their own nests by instinct. In the wild, orangutan mothers teach their babies the art of survival. This is something orphan orangutans have to learn by themselves.

  4. Free roaming: The last stage of rehabilitation, the Orangutans are free to come and go as they please.

    At the outdoor nursery, once orangutans reach the age of eight to ten years, they move further into the forest. Finally they become independent and can disappear for a while, reappearing at the feeding platform unexpectedly. There are a few males which return with well formed flanges and several females return to show off their new born babies at the feeding platform.




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I went completely clean headed on this one.




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This guy charged me!




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These macaque's would hang around the orangutan's feeding platforms to hone in on some of the free food.




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Wild male arrives
This guy was not one of the ones being rehabilitated; he was a wild orangutan showing up for a free lunch.




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