Wildlife centre has a new baby orangutan
KUCHING: It was a sight to behold. Selina, the 18-year-old orangutan frequently spotted at the Semenggoh Wildlife Centre (SWC), was seen proudly carrying her new bundle of joy at the Feeding Platform 2 at 4pm on Tuesday (May 10). The Sarawak Forestry Corporation (SFC) believes Selina conceived in August last year. “The beautiful deep orange […]
Baby orangutan born at Semenggoh Wildlife Centre
KUCHING: The Semenggoh Wildlife Centre has announced that the orang utan stork has landed and delivered its latest edition, a baby orangutan or ape at its centre. “Another successful orangutan conservation efforts by the Sarawak state government and Sarawak Forestry Corporation (SFC),” its official said in a press statement here on Sunday (Jan 23). The […]
Life of an orangutan casanova
More than a year has passed since my namesake, Ritchie the orangutan alpha male, disappeared from the 653ha Semenggoh Wildlife Centre forest. I have done my own investigations to find out what happened because several years ago, he fell from a 150-ft tall tree and broke a limb. Thanks to Ritchie’s keeper Murtadza Othman, a […]
King Ritchie goes AWOL
We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realise that we are apes. — Richard Dawkins, British evolutionary biologist, ethologist and popular-science writer Last weekend, I received an urgent call from the Semenggoh Wildlife Center informing me that my “foster” son Ritchie had disappeared. It was not the first time that the orangutan […]
