Posted on 12/21/2018 11:03:36 AM PST by Red Badger
JAKARTA: The world's only known albino orangutan has been released back into the jungle more than a year after she was found emaciated and bloody in a remote corner of Borneo, an Indonesian NGO said on Friday (Dec 21).
Environmentalists rescued "Alba" from a cage where she was being kept as a pet by villagers in Central Kalimantan in April last year.
She was found with dry blood smeared around her nose - the result of her violent capture - and weighed just 8 kilogrammes, the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation (BOSF) said.
The blue-eyed primate, covered in fuzzy white hair, was on Wednesday returned to the wild with her best friend, Kika, after leaving their rehabilitation centre.
"So far she's showing good signs of adapting," Nico Hermanu, a BOSF spokesman, told AFP.
"She's been climbing trees as high as 35 metres (about 115 feet) and has been eating fruit from the forest."
Kika and Alba - who is six years old and now 28 kilos - will be monitored by conservation teams at Bukit Baka Bukit Raya National Park.
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Humans with Albinism often have very poor vision. Wonder how they did an eye exam on an orangutan?
100 feet up in the trees?....................
“100 feet up in the trees?....................”
Predators climb trees.Whether they’re Cats or other Great Apes.
Even Chimps will kill other members of their species when they get hungry.
White privilege?
Pack animals are not nice to those who are different. Conformity is the name of the game. Flocks are even worse.
I don’t think orangutans are social primates.....................
Females tend to live in overlapping ranges around a dominate male.
She will have to interact with the male and several of his females.
"Most kids with albinism have blue eyes, and others have brownish eyes. In some cases of albinism, a kid's eyes might appear pink or reddish. This isn't because the iris (the colored part of the eye) is pink or red. It's because the iris actually has very little color."
—kidshealth.com
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