Buddy systems frequently develop among the young orphaned orangutans at the Orangutan Care Center and Quarantine (OCCQ).
Dorris & Holland
Craving the comfort they would have received from their mothers for six to as many as ten years, the orangutans make friends, often in pairs.
Bayat & Chewey
Ray & Vytas
Friendships come in handy to the orphans during daily visits to the OFI Learning Forest.
Buddies Holland and Trudeau follow one another while climbing.
Dodot and Weyerhauser stay close as they explore during forest school.
Kobe & Ryan trade secrets bundled into a small nook under a tree.
While some young orangutans are confident in their independence, others prefer company to dig, climb, and sometimes even to sleep.
Charlie & Karti
Jennifer & Summers
Walman & Weyerhauser
Buddy systems help the orangutans to learn important skills from one another through sharing and imitation.
Jennifer & Yansi Seymour
Jennifer & Yansi Seymour
We cannot forget the infrangible bond between young orangutan and mother that these orphans once knew in the wild. The illegal pet industry as well as habitat destruction from logging and land modification for palm oil plantations have induced an overwhelming orphan phenomenon. As young orangutans work together and flourish as pairs at the OCCQ, we must also work together as a species to protect their habitat and save them from extinction.
Doris & Lucky
Holland & Iribe
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Such a great story with wonderful pictures
Beautiful story. Wonderful pictures. Love them!!
What stunning and just wonderful pictures, fantastic. I was incredibly blessed to be able to see these most wonderful friends of ours on a visit to Borneo a couple of years, thanks to amazing guides such as Jeffrey Ansoon I saw them in the wild in their own place every day……
Am I able to become a foster parent to Doris?I think she is just so gorgeous.
Thankyou
Cherry
Unfortunately you’re not able to foster Doris currently, but there are a lot of other orangutans that could use your help here:
https://orangutan.org/product-category/foster-parent-kits/
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