Orangutan Mother Meets Baby 12 Days After Caesarean Section

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-36048393

If this doesn't make your eyes moist, then I don't know what will !

[ladybirder]

Mikey I'm nuts about Orangutans, especially Amy at Monkey World. Don't know if you watch it, on currently on Spike Sunday afternoons. Amy is the mother of Gordon who she ignored after giving birth so MW had to nurse him for months but they have now reintroduced them and all Amy cares about is food and she takes his away from him and eats it herself. She's an awful mum but she has the most fabulous face. If you're bored on a wet Sunday afternoon, watch it.

[mikey4444]

Thanks LB...I might do that, but I am not sure what spike is...do you know the channel number ?

[ladybirder]

Sorry M, it's on Pick, Freeview 11. Starts at 2pm and finishes at 7pm - 10 half hour programmes. It is not compulsory to watch them all;-}}

Monkey World does such good work all over the world in saving endangered and abused primates.

[ummmm]

I watched the programme when the mother was given the cesarean. Glad it all worked out well. Very cute...

[RATTER15]

I visited Monkey World many years ago, not long after it opened, it has grown a lot in that time. I would love to go there again, just too far away now.

I love to watch the series on tv, I sometimes watch it for hours. Such a great loss when Jim Cronin died so young!

[mikey4444]

I have put "Monkey World" down on my list of things to do, next time I am down south.

I have a similar but much smaller place near me :::::

http://www.ape-monkey-rescue.org.uk/

Not been there yet...not sure why as its the sort of place I like....must remedy that this Spring !

[Patsy33]

My heart melts every time I see Orangutans, they are so shy and gentle. So glad mother took to her gorgeous baby. I remember seeing lovely creatures at Dublin zoo a few years ago, I could have watched them all day, so special. By the way, what a great zoo it is too.

[ladybirder]

I agree patsy, they are so special. Fabulous faces. I remember Jim Cronin, the wonderful guy (now dead) who started Monkey World with his wife Alison, saying about Orangs that quietly they take note of you, study you, from all angles, before deciding whether to interact with you or not. Whereas Chimps are just nuts, hooligans in fact.

[Hopkirk]

Did you see Paul O'Grady's animal orphans last night?

Cute baby orangutans there!

[ladybirder]

I did Hoppy, beautiful.
RATTER, agree Jim Cronin was such a tragic loss, in New York and diagnosed with cancer and dead within days I believe. He was such a lovely man and I much prefer watching the old programmes with him alive and well. But full marks to Alison and Jeremy who are carrying on the marvellous work.

[viv41]

I warched it Hokirk. Paul was really taken with the baby and didn't want to leave it.

[viv41]

^Ooops 'Hopkirk' ..

[Hopkirk]

Paul always wants to take the animals home.

[Lie-in King]

Awwwww! Thanks Mikey :-)

[Mamyalynne]

Lovely to watch - so loving.

[Tilly2]

Lovely. Thanks, Mikey.

[mikey4444]

Happy to oblige !