Rescued Baby Orangutans Exploring The World Love Nature

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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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