Orang-utan relaxes during surgery in Indonesia
A HUGE orang-utan has undergone an operation in an Indonesian clinic to remove metal pellets — fired by a poacher — from the primate’s backside.
IT’S Harry and the Hendersons meets ER.
A hulking orang-utan lies patiently on an Indonesian clinic’s operating table as a staffer gets to work removing metal pellets — fired by a poacher — from the poor primate’s backside.
The 14-year-old male was rescued Tuesday in Northern Sumatra’s Langkat district and taken to the Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Program centre in nearby Sibolangit, the New York Post reports.
Along with Indonesia’s Ministry of Forestry, the centre has saved hundreds of the endangered Sumatran orang-utans amid a shrinking habitat and a worsening poaching crisis.
Since launching in 1999, it has reintroduced more than 200 into the wild.
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