The natural world never fails to surprise us, and this moving encounter between an orangutan and a man in Borneo has melted hearts all over the world. 9News
"I never expected something like that. I just grabbed that moment. It was really emotional."
Venomous snakes are predators of Borneo's orangutans, which are under threat from forest fires, habitat loss and hunting.The guard then moved away from the ape and climbed out of the water.When Prabhakar asked why he moved away, "He said, 'they're completely wild, we don't know how they'll react.'""I'm so happy that moment happened to me," he said. His photo of the moment has been liked 15,000 times on Instagram.
The orangutan is Asia's only great ape and is found mostly in Borneo and Sumatra in Indonesia, with the remaining 10 per cent found in Sabah and Sarawak in Malaysia, according to the BOS foundation. It is estimated that the Bornean orangutan population has decreased by more than 80 per cent within the past three generations.
The apes are brought to the conservation forest if they are injured, at risk from hunters or facing destruction of their habitats.They also reproduce very slowly, according to BOS.
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