An orang utan mother with a baby clinging onto her (left) grabs the rope bridge as soon as it was thrown towards her.
KOTA KINABALU: The Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF) has captured rare images of an orang utan swimming to safety with a baby on her back. The mother swims while holding onto the rope. It made sure the baby’s head was above water while she swam across.
A WWF field staff recently took the photographs in the Lower Segama area between Sandakan and Lahad Datu. The orang utan had been stranded on a tree for a week because of floods when the Sabah Wildlife Department sent a team to the area.
They had just set up a rope bridge about four metres to the nearest point of dry ground. The orang utan, with her baby clinging onto her back, climbed down the tree and grabbed hold of the rope that was thrown to her, said a WWF spokesman.
The orang utan then pulled herself closer toward dry land and swam "like a dog", the spokesman said. The mother and baby were fed, and tended for about 30 minutes before being released into the jungle.
Goh, Roy.(2009). "Any mother will swim to save her child." New Straits Times. Retrieve on 2009 March 18, from http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/Wednesday/National/2508055/Article/index_html
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Orang Utan is a species that is afraid of water.
that is one of their rule - NO SWIMMING!
Apparently, the aforementioned story showed that a mother is willing to break this rule
For the sake of her hungry child, as well of her own safety...
~and sadly some mankind couldn't do the same
Another touching fact that is displayed is that...
~they get our drift...
Great God...
Thanks
9:57 PM
Subhanallah.....
7:46 AM
indeed, subhanallah.
even animals care for their offspring. if only all human can do the same. great post!
2:07 AM
thnks..im a ntre,wildlife lover
cre to join me in sving a planet?