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  • - [Karmele] The difference between orangutans

  • and other animals,

  • they need this process of learning.

  • They learn by imitating.

  • They learn by observing.

  • So that's why we created these forest schools,

  • where they can learn from each other.

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  • This is the International Animal Rescue Center

  • for orangutans in Ketapang.

  • We have now 102 orangutans.

  • We come across orangutans that are

  • kept as pets illegally.

  • We also rescue them for the habitat that is disappearing.

  • When we rescue orangutans,

  • especially when they are small babies,

  • these babies have lost their mothers.

  • Normally an orangutan will remain

  • with its mother for as long as

  • seven to eight years of their lives.

  • And this is the process when the orangutans have the chance

  • to learn from their mothers how to survive in the wild,

  • what to eat,

  • what not to eat,

  • what are the dangers of the forest.

  • What we have to do is to teach them

  • how to survive in the wild.

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  • In these forest schools,

  • one of the first ones is how to be off the ground,

  • how to spend time on the top of the trees.

  • Which, it might seem like a very simple thing,

  • but actually some of these orangutans

  • are having living with people

  • and having chained up or living in small cages.

  • At the beginning they are afraid to climb a tree.

  • The ultimate goal of this rehabilitation

  • is to release these animals back to the wild.

  • What is special with orangutans

  • is they are very similar to humans.

  • If we don't care about orangutans,

  • I think it's even more difficult

  • that we are going to care about any of the other species.

  • If they get extinct in Indonesia

  • they will be extinct from the face of the world.

  • So we have to do something about this now.

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