Rare Albino Orangutan Released Back Into The Jungle (Photo)

 

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.

 

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.