Did you know that orangutans share 97 percent of our DNA? Like us, they have complex emotions, family bonds, and a love of drawing and music. Rickina is a little orphaned orangutan who’s being cared for at the IAR Ketapang Orangutan Rescue Center in Borneo, after being confiscated from a man who claims that her mother dropped her and ran away when she saw a stranger in the forest. Rickina has a horrible wound on her head that the man says was caused by his machete when he bent down to pick her up, but considering that mother orangutans will fight to the death to protect their young, his story is “suspect”, to say the least. In this video, Rickina is making some new friends, who will hopefully lessen her anxiety at being away from her mother. Read the rest of VIDEO: Orphaned baby Indonesian orangutan named Rickina Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: baby orangutan , borneo , help orangutan , indonesia , machete , machete wound , orangutan , orangutan graveyard , orangutan help , orangutan murder , orangutan orphans , orangutan outreach , orangutan rescue , orangutan rickina , orangutan slaughter , orangutan video , orangutans , orphaned orangutan , palm oil , palm oil orangutan , palm oil plantation , Rickina , unethical palm oil , wounded baby orangutan
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VIDEO: Orphaned baby Indonesian orangutan named Rickina
