Orang-Utan Babies – sooo flauschig!

Especially sweet are of course the very young orangutans. The babies are always to be found together with the mother. Constantly they cling to and take off when then only briefly from her.

After about a nine-month gestation period, the baby monkey is born and spent the first five to eight years with the mother. During this time, the boys learn everything they need to survive.

Every day build the rebuilding process-utans a nest that serves as a place to sleep. Also, this ability must learn the babies. At Camp Leakey, the animals are also fed with milk, which is very well received.

The babies are nursed by the mother, but also eat bananas and other fruits.

Just because it often comes to a dispute over the seizure and the males scare the females, including the orang-Utanbabies, the mothers do everything to get hold of enough food. In this case, the lady was walking upright from the dust by reaching for the top, so that no one comes to the fruits.

The fact that the babies spend so long time with her mother, so get a monkey Mama often only two to three cubs in their lifetime. Very rarely it happens that she rears two cubs of different ages.

As I said, the visit to the Tanjung Puting National Park with its orang-utans was not only despite the scorching heat of the skin thanks to Boots the most comfortable jungle tour I've ever done, but the encounter with the primates was a unique experience. Nowhere in the world to get the apes so close and can quietly observe their behavior. Hopefully it succeeds in clearing work and the pollution of the river to stop to prevent the extinction of orangutans.