A rare albino orangutan rescued after found bloody and emaciated has been released back into the jungle.
Alba
The world’s only known albino orangutan has been released back into the jungle more than a year after she was found emaciated and bloody in a remote corner of Borneo, an Indonesian NGO said Friday.
According to AFP report, the orangutan identified as Alba was rescued from a cage where she was being kept as a pet by villagers in Central Kalimantan in April last year.
She was found with dry blood smeared around her nose — the result of her violent capture — and weighed just 8 kilogrammes, the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation said.
The blue-eyed primate, covered in fuzzy white hair, was on Wednesday returned to the wild with her best friend, Kika, after leaving their rehabilitation centre.
“So far she’s showing good signs of adapting,” Nico Hermanu, a BOSF spokesman, told AFP.
“She’s been climbing trees as high as 35 metres (about 115 feet) and has been eating fruit from the forest.”
Kika and Alba — who is six years old and now 28 kilos — will be monitored by conservation teams at Bukit Baka Bukit Raya National Park.