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00:05 COMM: In Borneo, an emaciated pet baby orang-utan
takes her first steps of freedom .....and then clings to her rescuer as she is carried
away to a new life.
00:19 COMM: Staff from International Animal Rescue
have been called to collect Si Manis, an abandoned baby orang-utan who had been taken in and
kept as a pet by a well-meaning farmer. But as the farmer had no experience or knowledge
about how to care for the orang-utan, he fed her the wrong foods and kept him tied up,
leading to Si Manis becoming malnourished and suffering cuts to her neck and wrists.
00:44 COMM: Thankfully the farmer realised he couldn't
cope, and now Si Manis will be taken to the Orangutan Rescue and Rehabilitation Centre
in West Kalimantan.
01:04 COMM: Once safely at the Centre, Su Manis
is placed in quarantine to be cared for and given the correct food. The tofu and rice
she had been raised on is replaced with fruit, her natural diet.
01:24 COMM: After two months in quarantine, she
will join the rest of the pupils at the centre’s orangutan baby school
01:35 COMM: where over the course of three years
she'll learn the skills she’ll need when she is released back into the wild.