.Tuesday, June 2, 2009 @ 10:16 PM Y
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Monday 1st of June
A malaysian orang-utan sanctuary where baby apes wear nappies, sleep in cots and are cared for by nurses dressed in masks and starched uniforms has drawn the wrath of environmentalists.At orang-utan island in Malaysia's north, tourists snap photos as they file past large windows looking onto a facility billed as the world's only rehabilitation and preservation facility for the endangered primates.Behind the glass, adorable baby orang-utan like two month old Tuah lie swaddledin nursery sheets and cling onto baby rattles.''He is seperated from from his mother because his hand got entangled in the mother's hair and was unable to feed,''says the facility chief veterinarian D.Sabapathy.But the care lavished in the animals, which are fed every two hours by a staff of seven nurses on duty round the clock, is lost on the environmentalists who says this is no way to treat wild animals facing the threat of extinction.
opinion 1:Baby orang-utans need to stay with their mother instead of being taken care by staff.Its mother will teach its young for the first four years or more on what to eat and how to look for food.If it is taken care by staff instead, when it returned to the wild,it do not know what to eat.Not knowing what to eat, it can eat something poisonous and can ill or even die.Worst of all,it do not know where to find food at all.It can die of hunger.With the help of its mother it know what can be eaten and what cannot and where to find food.
Opinion 2:Mr Sabapathy said infants were removed from their mother only if they were under-weigtht, neglected and at risk of dying,and that some mothers raised their own babbies,including one born last month.With their help only if this is the case, I am sure that the orang-utan will do well in their care.