Young and playful orangutans at Camp Leakey

Posted on July 28, 2014 by schdani

Die jungen Wilden! - Orangutanteenager im Camp Leakey

Orangutans have a life expectancy of about 50 years old. The reach sexual maturity occurs in females the age of seven. Among males with eight to fifteen years Whether it is a young or old monkeys, can be recognized by the color of the face which darkens with age and is finally black. In the males, the throat pouch and the Wangenwülste form only between 15 and 20 years of age.

More specifically comes close to the ape at Camp Leakey, which has established itself as a research station for the endangered primates. Dr. Biruté Galdikas has set up the camp in 1971, which is now also a central place for the Orangutan Foundation International is.

At the young age of the male organ still play with each other and so test their strength. Later they are against each other struggling for the hierarchy in the group.

This Orangutandame barred our way to feeding, lazy they just remained so motionless on the web are all up about 25 tourists on them have risen over it!

As we made our after feeding with the boat on the way to our sleeping place, I saw this young male orangutan named Atlas in the trees on the riverbank.

We stopped and the monkey approached the boat hoping to grab some food! Quick fruit pieces were brought from the kitchen to give to the curious and hungry Pongo pygmaeus. Be sure he wanted to climb directly onto the boat, we could very nearly avoided!

So the impossible came true, we could touch a Orangutan shortly after we have assured us that he has fully eat the mouth naturally 😉

Baby Orang-Utans auf Borneo

Posted on July 23, 2014 by schdani

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.

Orangutanmännchen in Borneo

Posted on July 21, 2014 by schdani

The orang-Utanmännchen of Borneo

The males of these apes are almost twice as heavy as the females with 50 up to 100 kg.

On the 3 feeding stations Pondok Tangui, Tanjung Harapan Camp Leaky and there is a strict hierarchy among the males.

We witnessed a scene in which a male orangutan has attacked a female with her child, because this would take some bananas.

The central office of the National Park is the Orangutan Foundation International, which cares for the rescue of injured monkeys and their rehabilitation.

Last but not least we were still witnessing a mating ritual, in which the alpha male very brutal fleeing the females took from the tree and then fell upon them! Then how could it be otherwise, he remained sitting there calm and content.

It was really very impressive and a little scary to experience the Orangutanmännchen so close, especially as a direct waited on us on the way and we had to make returns march ......

And at last again some video clips of the great apes

Orang-utan in Borneo Tour

Posted on July 10, 2014 by schdani

The orangutans von Zentralkalimatan

So a trip around the world is not to have completely visited without the orangutans in Tanjung Puting National Park National Park !!

Our check in was done from Kuching via Pontianak to Pangkalan Bun with small propeller planes, where the airport was waiting for our guide. The 4 nights / 5 days tour we had booked in advance via the Internet. Although there are several providers, all boats are very similar and you always meet all tourists at feeding, so that also the program does not differ by much.

The aerial view shows the rainforest Zentralkalimantans, but unfortunately I had to help with the colors more on environmental issues but later!

From Pangkalan Bun it goes half an hour by car to Kumai, a small port town where are many important goods for the Indonesian main island of Java shipped. Kumai but is also the gateway to Tanjung Puting Nationalpark, One of the most important of Indonesia.

The trip itself was by far the most comfortable jungle tour I've ever done! It is on a 16 meters long and 3 meters wide houseboat you here Klotok calls on the river kutschiert on which the vegetation is constantly changing.

The crew consists of a guide, the cook, the captain and his assistant, who are in the lower deck. The upper deck is one of the guests, here you can sleep on a mattress under a mosquito net and in addition to sun loungers, a large dining table that has the most delicious dishes are served in Indonesia.

At night is then applied to a quiet spot on the river.

In the evening is the proboscis monkeys observed on the trees on the riverbank the best time. Here they sit comfortably together in the group.

But the idyll is deceptive: Not far from the feeding sites of the orang utans, some kilometers further upstream, it has opened a gold mine. To get there, the rock mercury to separate the gold used which then passes directly into the river and gives him this brown color. This is where two branches of the river, the dark water is pure, the brown of the pollution. Although the government has promised a long time to clean the river, this has not happened yet and the people using it still to wash themselves and their clothes and to fish there.

In the national park there are 3 Feeding Stations, Tangui cottage, Cape of Good Hope and the famous Camp Leaky. Here the orangutans are fed at different times of the day bananas and milk. Here are the first impressions of the Apes. They expected us already in the trees! More about the National Park and the orangutans in the next article!

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