Rescued Baby Orangutans Exploring The World Love Nature
Transcript
00:00 (baby cooing)
00:02 This is the way it always begins.
00:06 A frightened baby,
00:16 robbed of its mother,
00:20 and a life in the wild.
00:27 (door creaking)
00:30 1.5.
00:33 Now, only human compassion
00:41 and a revolutionary rescue program can make it right.
00:44 In the quarantine wing
00:48 of the Nyaru Menteng Rescue and Rehab Center,
00:51 located in Indonesian Borneo,
00:53 a new arrival is comforted.
00:56 (gentle music)
00:59 She's a little girl,
01:02 and her condition shocks everyone.
01:06 - They arrive here with a little skinny orangutan.
01:13 So little, so tiny.
01:16 - Veterinarian Aga can tell by how many teeth she has
01:22 that she's around nine months old.
01:25 (gentle music)
01:27 At this age, she should weigh at least nine to 11 pounds.
01:37 - 1.5.
01:43 - But she's less than half of that.
01:45 It's a miracle she's alive.
01:54 (gentle music)
01:57 She was discovered on a flooded riverbank
02:01 by some teenagers while out fishing.
02:04 There was no sign of her mother.
02:07 The vets name her Topan,
02:13 which means hurricane or flooding in Javanese.
02:17 She's so malnourished,
02:22 Aga realizes she probably hasn't eaten for at least a week.
02:27 - I hold her really close to me, to my chest,
02:30 so it will make her feel warm and feel my heartbeat.
02:35 Just want to make her calm.
02:38 - Topan's not the only newcomer here.
02:49 In the last fortnight,
02:51 three other rescued orphans have also arrived.
02:55 Suzanne,
02:57 Josh,
03:00 and Tamer.
03:02 Each with their own story of loss and tragedy.
03:08 Suzanne was rescued from a wooden crate
03:13 in which she'd likely been kept for months.
03:16 (birds chirping)
03:19 Although the villagers claimed
03:22 they'd only found her recently.
03:24 Despite her ordeal, she appears relatively healthy.
03:36 18-month-old Josh was rescued a week ago
03:43 from a mining village, a full day's drive away.
03:47 - Hey, Josh.
03:48 - He has a broken wrist,
03:55 an injury that probably happened
03:57 when his mother was attacked and killed.
04:00 In remote villages,
04:08 wild orangutans can be killed for raiding crops
04:12 and sometimes as a source of meat.
04:15 The most unusual arrival was Tamer.
04:19 He turned up with his own media entourage
04:30 after his story made international news.
04:33 (upbeat music)
04:35 He'd been rescued from Kuwait in the Middle East
04:49 where he was kept as an illegal pet by an oil sheik
04:52 who was also a criminal drug dealer.
05:00 What happened to Tamer in his first year of life is unknown,
05:05 but it's clear he's been severely traumatized.
05:09 Despite the distressing start to their lives,
05:20 these four young orphans now have a chance
05:24 to begin a journey through one
05:26 of the boldest conservation experiments
05:28 of the 21st century.
05:31 The Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation Rescue Sanctuary
05:39 is like nowhere else on earth.
05:41 It's a unique school where the orphans learn
05:46 all the survival skills their mothers would have taught them
05:50 from a team of specially trained humans.
05:55 Becoming orangutan can take up to eight years.
05:58 The length of time a wild baby depends on its mother.
06:03 So there's much to learn before these orphans
06:08 will be ready to return to the wild.
06:10 To reach that pinnacle of graduation,
06:15 every student must master the jungle school curriculum.
06:19 (footsteps thudding)
06:22 Just like a human school, the students are divided
06:28 into groups according to their age and skills.
06:32 From nursery school,
06:35 through junior,
06:39 and senior school.
06:44 (children shouting)
06:47 Once they've achieved all the milestones at each level,
06:53 there's one more huge step in the process.
06:56 The pre-release islands.
07:01 Protected by the Rungan River,
07:07 these islands are a semi-wild testing ground
07:10 where the students put everything they've learned
07:12 into practice.
07:13 Kind of like college.
07:17 They get supplementary food drops, but other than that,
07:23 they have to fend for themselves.
07:25 Some graduates even have babies here
07:32 and pass on their knowledge to the next generation.
07:35 Once a student has proven themself on a pre-release island,
07:42 they can graduate to the ultimate goal,
07:46 a life in the true wild where they belong.
07:49 (animals squealing)
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