Surviving 3 DAYS in ORANGUTAN JUNGLE Borneo! Pt 3
Surviving 3 DAYS in ORANGUTAN JUNGLE Borneo! Pt 3
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00:00 He went swimming in the water, a croc about 5 meters long grabbed him.
00:03 So just down this hole right here is a big tarantula.
00:06 They are venomous and if I got bitten out here, they do have very big fangs.
00:10 Against all odds, this big male had 10 females up in the tree with him.
00:14 This is what I wanted coming over here to Borneo, to have this one-on-one connection
00:19 with an animal as beautiful as an orangutan right here.
00:22 Over the past few episodes, we've been exploring the wild lands of Borneo,
00:26 looking for the deadliest creatures in the world and mate, we found them.
00:30 I'm going to attempt to pick it up at the moment.
00:33 And a snake big enough to take down an elephant with the amount of venom that it carries in its
00:38 venom glands.
00:39 But that's not the main reason we came to this beautiful country.
00:43 This episode is going to be pretty crazy.
00:45 So we're currently on a boat at the moment heading deep into the jungle of Borneo.
00:51 Now the reason why we've come out here is because these are truly wild lands which hold
00:56 so many crazy species, elephants, rhinos, leopards, saltwater crocodiles.
01:01 And the main reason why we've come out to this area of the forest is to film the human of the
01:06 forest, orangutans.
01:08 We actually share 97% of the same DNA as these creatures.
01:13 But the sad thing is these animals really do need our help because it's estimated that in
01:17 the past 80 years, about 80% of the orangutan population has disappeared from these forests.
01:24 We're about to jump on a speedboat, head up the river to a little sanctuary which holds
01:28 these orangutans.
01:30 But yeah, we're going to be living with them over the next few days, filming some crazy
01:33 adventures here in Borneo.
01:35 And hopefully this whole experience will make one or two people want to save these animals.
01:39 Welcome to Borneo.
01:41 Let's get this adventure started.
01:42 So this is the boat that we're going to be staying on for the next few days, living off
01:50 this boat, going out there into the jungle and seeing these orangutans.
01:54 We've spent the last 24 hours or so traveling to get out here.
01:58 I'm super tired but super excited.
02:00 So this is where we're staying, just right up on the deck.
02:02 Malaria is a real thing out here and can be caught if you get bitten by the wrong mosquito.
02:07 Last night when we were sleeping here, there was an orangutan just up in the bushes over
02:11 there, which is pretty crazy.
02:12 And I reckon on the boat ride up here, we might be able to spot a few up in the trees
02:16 before we even get there.
02:17 And these are my brothers that are going to be taking me on this adventure.
02:20 Diaz and Hari.
02:21 We were in Australia yesterday morning.
02:23 Now we're in the jungle of Borneo.
02:25 What other species could we find out here in the jungle of Borneo?
02:28 We have saltwater crocodile, orangutan and some endemic monkey that we call proboscis
02:33 monkey.
02:34 With the big nose.
02:34 With the big nose, king cobra.
02:36 Oh yeah, king cobra.
02:38 So we actually have nine primates in this national park, but in total I think we have
02:42 10 primates.
02:43 And if anyone's looking to come on an adventure in Borneo, I'll chuck their Instagrams up
02:47 on the screen.
02:48 But yeah, check them out if you ever want to come over here and do exactly what's happening
02:52 in this video.
02:53 All right, let's go find some orangutans.
02:54 Yeah.
02:54 Borneo is an ecosystem that is filled with so many different animals.
03:08 So many crazy, unique species that only live here.
03:11 They're endemic to this area.
03:12 That's the reason why I wanted to come here.
03:14 But I hope you enjoyed this adventure.
03:16 We're about to jump in the speedboat, get out of here and find some orangutans.
03:21 Let's go.
03:22 Yeah, so this is one of the first orangutans that we've seen just cruising up this river
03:33 bank.
03:34 Yeah.
03:34 Now we're going to be getting up close and personal with these animals over the next
03:43 few days.
03:44 But seeing them just cruising up this river to that spot in the rainforest is so cool.
04:13 So we're just walking through the jungle right now and we're looking for animals.
04:17 This area in particular holds a lot of big orangutans.
04:20 So we're going to be keeping our eyes out for them.
04:22 But also a lot of venomous snakes as well.
04:24 We're being careful.
04:24 We're barefoot at the moment, trekking through this jungle.
04:27 Pretty crazy adventure.
04:28 Pretty crazy way to start off this adventure.
04:31 Let's see what we can find.
04:32 So just above me right here is the first orangutan that we've actually found on foot walking
04:40 through this jungle.
04:41 Now this jungle is filled with so many animals.
04:43 Sun bears, leopards, orangutans.
04:47 But this is the animal that we came out here to find and they are so cool.
04:51 They're literally the people of the forest.
04:52 And he's just sitting up in the tree right there looking down at me.
04:58 She didn't look very impressed.
05:08 But I wanted to show this orangutan that I would much rather be living out here with
05:12 them than back in the city.
05:14 So after spotting a highly venomous snake way up in the canopy a few trees away from
05:19 her, I knew it'd be the perfect opportunity to test out my climbing skills.
05:23 [Music]
05:39 So you can see just up in this tree, big pit viper.
05:44 So cool, big fella.
05:47 Got a nice blue colour on him.
05:49 I feel like an orangutan up here.
05:52 All right, I'm going to come back down.
05:54 Yes.
05:58 So these orangutans are actually incredibly intelligent creatures and what they'll do
06:18 every single night.
06:19 On the boat ride here, I was looking up into the canopy and I saw a bunch of leaves all
06:23 pushed together, made into a bit of a nest.
06:25 Every single night, these orangutans will build these nests up there in the canopy,
06:30 snapping a bunch of sticks off, sleeping on them and then going on after that.
06:34 And if it's raining, they'll even build little roofs over the top of them.
06:37 There is a big male orangutan just walking out right now.
06:41 This is what I wanted to see.
06:42 He is massive.
06:44 What's his name?
06:45 Roger?
06:46 Roger.
06:47 See those massive cheek pads that he's got.
06:49 They're a very plate faced animal.
06:51 The more bananas that this guy eats today, the bigger they're going to get.
06:55 And this big male is probably about 35 years old, living out here in the wild.
07:00 And he's the dominant male.
07:01 If another one wants to come into this area and eat all of those bananas and take all
07:05 of his females, he's going to have to fight Roger for it.
07:08 And it's my time to shine.
07:09 If I don't come back, I'm going to be living out here, living like a king.
07:14 Now, Roger would be so much stronger than me.
07:16 And they're very intelligent creatures, too.
07:18 They've even been seen using sticks and rocks as tools out here in the rainforest.
07:23 Sawing, sawing the wood and also paddling on the boat.
07:27 So the orangutans do all that.
07:28 Soar and paddle on the boat.
07:31 Yeah.
07:31 And also walking on the ground, like with two feet.
07:36 Yeah, they copy us.
07:37 Yeah, copy us.
07:38 They can definitely speak as well.
07:39 They just don't want to pay taxes.
07:40 But yeah, this is a pretty crazy experience seeing these animals in person.
07:45 We're going to watch Roger for a bit and the other orangutans that are feeding in this
07:49 area.
07:50 And yeah, just see these beautiful animals up close.
07:52 We'll change the lens and get some really good shots of them.
07:55 [Music]
08:05 [Music]
08:25 [Music]
08:36 So the sun's just going down at the moment.
08:38 And what we're going to do after dark is head back to that place where we were filming the
08:42 orangutans earlier today and go for a night walk to try and track down some snakes.
08:47 It's been such an epic first day in Borneo, seeing these orangutans and now going out
08:52 for a night walk.
08:53 We might even get in a little canoe and see if we can find some crocodiles and gharials
08:58 later on tonight.
08:59 Pretty cool though.
09:00 Just enjoying the sunset and I'll see you all after dark.
09:03 [Music]
09:21 So it's just got dark here in the jungle of Borneo.
09:24 What we're doing is walking around, walking some tracks with the locals to see if we can
09:29 find some venomous creatures.
09:30 The main goal for this night walk is to find a big tarantula that we can hopefully catch,
09:35 get up close to the camera.
09:36 But there's also heaps of venomous snakes out here.
09:38 [Music]
09:46 Why you bite me buddy?
09:47 So just down this hole right here is a big tarantula.
09:52 We're hoping that he comes back out at the moment.
09:54 [Music]
10:10 So this is a big tarantula out here in the rainforest and he's a beautiful one as well.
10:18 This is so cool.
10:20 This is one of the species that we wanted to find on this night walk.
10:24 They are venomous and if I got bitten out here, they do have very big fangs but it would
10:32 most likely feel like a bee sting if I was stung and didn't have a really bad reaction
10:37 to the venom.
10:38 But take a look at that, out here in the jungle of Borneo and we found this really big tarantula.
10:43 So this is a black Borneo tarantula and as you saw the method of us catching him was
10:49 putting a little stick at the front of their burrow and they'll actually come out and attack.
10:53 So what they're doing is they're sitting at the front of their burrow at night waiting
10:56 for something to co-pass like a little bug, a little lizard, anything like that, strike
11:01 out and venomate it, drag it back down into the hole and eat it.
11:04 But that's pretty cool right there if you ask me.
11:07 We're on this night walk looking for snakes, been a pretty epic day and night so far.
11:11 I reckon we're going to let this little tarantula go and keep going.
11:14 So we're just going to let him go.
11:22 There he goes, back down in there.
11:32 So it's day two at the moment, we're just heading to the second place where we're going
11:45 to be looking for orangutans.
11:46 There's a few big males that live in this area that we're hopefully going to be able
11:50 to get on camera.
11:51 But yeah, beautiful day out here in Borneo, let's see what we can find.
12:00 So we're just walking into one of the parks at the moment and we've got a little orangutan
12:05 right here.
12:07 Beautiful little male by the looks of things.
12:11 Just laying down on this boardwalk, doesn't have a bad life laying down here in the shade.
12:15 Okay.
12:35 Thank you boss.
12:36 Thank you too boss.
12:37 There we go.
12:39 So we're heading out to the feeding station now.
12:41 We've got a backpack full of bananas that we're going to feed to these orangutans.
12:45 Only the rangers are allowed to feed them.
12:46 Yeah, it'll be cool to see some big orangutans, big male ones eating them.
12:50 Is it heavy?
12:53 So we're just calling them in at the moment, at feeding time every day, they'll do these
13:00 calls and the orangutans will hear them and hopefully follow me up this track.
13:05 Hopefully I can run fast enough with this backpack on.
13:08 So during fruiting season, they won't actually feed these orangutans as much fruit, but when
13:35 there aren't as many fruits out there, they will feed them more.
13:39 But the idea is to get these orangutans back out there fully out into the wild.
13:43 And what they're seeing in places like this is less and less orangutans are coming to
13:48 these feeding zones, which is a good thing because they've done surveys outside these
13:52 areas and there are still the orangutans out there.
13:55 They're just choosing to live a life fully out there in the wild.
13:57 So we're nearly at the feeding station at the moment.
13:59 Pretty cool.
14:00 Watch some big orangutans eat all these bananas.
14:28 So we just carried those bananas over and we're at the feeding station.
14:31 We're seeing the first few orangutans gathering at this area.
14:35 Now this is a good thing, bringing them all together.
14:37 And if a big alpha male decides to come along, you might even get to see them breeding.
14:42 The mothers will only reproduce every eight to 10 years.
14:45 And the reason why the intervals between reproducing are so spaced out is because they want to
14:51 focus on one baby and that one baby, they raise it until it is about eight years old.
14:55 They don't want multiple babies at once, get a bit hectic.
14:58 But yeah, we're just going to watch these orangutans eating these bananas and sweet
15:02 potatoes.
15:03 And maybe later on in the day, we might even be able to have a really cool one-on-one experience
15:08 with one of these beautiful animals.
15:29 So Diaz, why are the orangutans going extinct?
15:50 Going extinct, first of all, because of their habitat.
15:53 You know, like one alpha male, they need a huge habitat.
15:57 Our main mission is to save the habitat first, actually, and then releasing the orangutans
16:01 to that habitat.
16:03 Because if we just save the animal, but we don't have enough habitat for them, it's useless
16:07 because they're going to fight each other, especially like orangutans.
16:10 The males have their own territory.
16:12 If we put hundreds of individual orangutans in 10 hectares area, it's going to be useless
16:18 because each male is going to be fighting.
16:20 Yeah, we don't want conflicts with humans and orangutans.
16:25 And by people chopping down their forest, that's what's going to happen.
16:30 So the idea is basically protect more forest, breed the orangutans and get them out there
16:36 so they have enough land to thrive.
16:38 Exactly.
16:39 So our main mission is save the habitat first.
16:43 Telling all of the people in this area, like, please save the forest, please save the animals,
16:48 please save the orangutans.
16:50 But there is no money to come to them.
16:51 It's useless, you know.
16:53 It's better to buy their land and protect the land.
16:56 I think that's the only way that we could do.
17:05 So while cruising up this river, it's easy to forget that this river is home to big saltwater
17:10 crocodiles.
17:11 And actually in the late 2000s, there was a police officer who got attacked by a big
17:15 croc here.
17:16 He went swimming in the water, a big croc about five meters long grabbed him.
17:21 And after a few days of the locals searching around this area, they found his body with
17:25 a big bite mark from the crocodile.
17:27 And because we're not in Australia, I just keep forgetting that there are big saltwater
17:31 crocodiles that live here.
17:32 Later on tonight, we're getting in a couple of the traditional canoes that they use up
17:36 this river to go looking for snakes deep in the rainforest.
17:39 So I'm pretty keen for that.
17:40 But yeah, just enjoying this arvo, see what else we find.
17:53 While cruising up the river in the boat, we must have seen hundreds of these proboscis
17:58 monkeys along the riverbank.
17:59 They're endemic to Borneo and famous for that huge nose that they have on the front of their
18:05 face.
18:06 Against all odds, this big male had 10 females up in the tree with him.
18:10 Good on you, mate.
18:32 This is what I wanted coming over here to Borneo to have this one on one connection
18:37 with an orangutan like this.
18:39 So these orangutans are incredibly intelligent animals.
18:43 They've even been seen out in the wild using sticks and rocks as tools to help catch and
18:48 break open their food.
18:49 The word orangutan means human of the forest.
18:53 I truly never thought coming over to Borneo that we would have this kind of experience
18:59 with an orangutan out here in the wild.
19:01 So 11 years old, maybe about five or so years ago, he would have just been leaving his mother.
19:07 They stay with their mother for about five to seven years in the wild, which is a long
19:12 time.
19:13 The only longer time is humans, which can be up to 40 years.
19:16 So what will happen is companies will come in and buy the land that the orangutans are
19:21 living in.
19:22 They'll chop it down and sell that wood as timber across the world, and then they'll
19:27 plant the big palm oil plantations.
19:29 And there's no use in getting these orangutans healthy and back out there into the wild in
19:33 big numbers if they don't have enough land to survive, because the big male orangutans
19:38 are very territorial animals.
19:41 They'll get in fights, and one of those big males, whoever loses, will get pushed further
19:45 out into the outskirts.
19:47 That's when they'll come in contact with villagers, going into the villages, eating their fruit,
19:51 and on some occasions, the villagers can kill them.
19:54 It's not uncommon for that to happen over here in Borneo and Sumatra.
19:58 I would love to come back to Borneo when I'm older and bring my kids back here and have
20:03 them have this same experience with an animal as beautiful as an orangutan right here.
20:08 So I'm going to leave a few links in the description of this video that will help out these orangutans.
20:14 If you want to go check them out, do some research, or maybe even donate too.
20:18 Thank you so much to the Indonesian people for being so welcoming every time I come over
20:22 here, and to the Orangutan Foundation International.
20:25 They're doing some great work, so check out them as well.
20:28 Thank you so much.
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21:26 - Now I truly believe that people need to see
21:29 experiences like this with humans and orangutans
21:32 and to actually come out here
21:33 and have these experiences myself.
21:35 This has been an animal I've wanted to find my whole life
21:39 and seeing them in person makes you wanna save them.
21:41 So I feel like this is pretty cool
21:43 that I can bring all you along for the adventure
21:45 and help save and raise awareness for these animals
21:48 because at the rate that it's going,
21:50 orangutans could be extinct one day
21:52 and that is something that we do not want.
21:54 We wanna see these animals thriving
21:56 out here in the rainforests,
21:57 not chopping down trees
21:59 and letting this forest flourish for years to come.
22:02 - Yeah, they are very important in this forest
22:05 because as you know, they are in,
22:08 in here we call them farmer of the forest, right?
22:12 So when they are making a nest,
22:15 like you're explaining about,
22:17 they are always making nests every day.
22:19 They're gathering leaves and branches all together
22:22 to make a good and stable for sleeping.
22:25 They just suddenly open the canopy of the forest
22:29 and allows the light to touch the ground
22:32 to help another plants grow
22:34 and get the nutrition from the sun.
22:36 - Farmers of the forest.
22:37 - Farmer of the forest.
22:38 - So when they're eating their fruit,
22:39 they're also dropping the seeds on the floor,
22:42 which is allowing--
22:43 - On the floor, yeah, allowing the seed for growth.
22:45 - So taking an animal like that out of the whole ecosystem
22:49 would be detrimental--
22:50 - Would be.
22:50 - To the jungles of Borneo.
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22:55 Thank you so much to my brothers, Diaz and Hari
23:09 for taking me on this adventure.
23:11 If you wanna do this yourself,
23:13 make sure to contact them on Instagram.
23:15 But yeah, three days living in the jungle of orangutans
23:20 with the people of the forest.
23:22 See you next week.
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