Jakarta: A picture of an orang utan seemingly offering a helping hand to a man in a pond received a warm reception globally from social media users after a geologist, Anil Prabhakar, posted the picture on his Instagram account.
“Let me help you? Once humanity dies in mankind, sometimes animals are guiding us back to our basics,” Anil wrote in his account.
Anil was in Samboja, East Kalimantan, on a tour in an orang utan facility managed by the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation .“I saw an orang utan come close to him and just offer him his hand.”“I just grabbed that moment. It was really emotional.” Jamartin Sihite, the chief executive officer of the BOSF, confirmed that the moment happened on island No. 6, where the female orang utan, Anih, 25, lives.“Looking at this picture, we cannot help but wonder that wild animals could be kinder to human beings than us to them.”“Anih and Syahrul have known each other since the 1990s,” he said, adding that Syahrul was doing maintenance work in the picture.“But based on our experience, she could have been asking for food from Syahrul.
Island No.6 is one of the islands where BOSF keeps rescued orang utans that could not be returned to the wild. It is called an “island” because the area was surrounded by 5m-wide trenches filled with water as deep as 2m.“By keeping them on such an island, they could enjoy a habitat close to their original one and at the same time we could keep an eye on them,” he said. — The Jakarta Post/ANN
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