A primate sanctuary has appealed for public funding to help it feed a baby orangutan, which has allergies.<\/p>\n
Monkey World Ape Rescue Centre in Wareham, collected Sibu Jr when he was just 12 weeks old and on 31 July he celebrated his first birthday.<\/p>\n
He was born at Dublin Zoo but had to be moved to Dorset for specialist care, after his mother would not allow him to suckle.<\/p>\n
The infant is allergic to the traditional cows milk formula feed and requires a more expensive alternative, which is why the centre is appealing for public support.<\/p>\n
In the wild orangutans would suckle until around four years old, which means keepers need to give him milk feeds several times a day.<\/p>\n
Director of Monkey World, Dr Alison Cronin, said he currently weighs just over 6kg and is getting through one tin of hypoallergenic milk formula a day and as he matures he will need to consume more.<\/p>\n
She added that he does eat fruit and vegetables but the formula is “essential for strong bone growth”.<\/p>\n
Sibu Jr is Monkeyworld’s 13th orphan orangutan to be cared for in their “Orangutan Creche”.<\/p>\n
He lives full-time in a specially designed playroom with his adoptive sister, 19-month-old Kiwi, who was also rejected by her mother in a zoo in Spain.<\/p>\n
The pair can see the older orangutans risk-free from their enclosure, where they can learn vital skills needed for adulthood until they are strong enough to be introduced to the other orphans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A primate sanctuary has appealed for public funding to help it feed a baby orangutan, which has allergies.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,66,323],"class_list":{"0":"post-55427","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}