Wednesday, February 01, 2006
Sogo-Sogo so good!
As part of the volunteering project Travellers have gone ahead and adopted a young orangutan for each of us!
My "adopted daughter" is a beautiful 2 year-old little girl called Sogo-Sogo. She has been at Sepilok since January 2005.
Sogo was found by villagers from the Tongond area of the Kinabatangan River who spotted her climbing trees by herself. She would not have survived on her own so they took her back to the village and looked after her for four months. She remained there until a visitor to the village alerted Sepilok who came to collect her. On arrival at Sepilok she was given a thorough health check and found to be extremely well.
She spent the first 3 months in quarantine (which apparently she hated, probably due to the amount of attention she had been given back at the village!) and currently lives in the indoor nursery. I am told she goes out to exercise with two other youngsters, Naru and Ampul, and is a very good climber!!
Hopefully i'll be able to meet her face-to-face while i'm working there and then i'll be able to let you know a lot more about her progress.
This is a shared adoption scheme so you can all join in if you like. See the "Orangutan Adoption at Sepilok" link in "how to help" section on the right for more details.
My "adopted daughter" is a beautiful 2 year-old little girl called Sogo-Sogo. She has been at Sepilok since January 2005.
Sogo was found by villagers from the Tongond area of the Kinabatangan River who spotted her climbing trees by herself. She would not have survived on her own so they took her back to the village and looked after her for four months. She remained there until a visitor to the village alerted Sepilok who came to collect her. On arrival at Sepilok she was given a thorough health check and found to be extremely well.She spent the first 3 months in quarantine (which apparently she hated, probably due to the amount of attention she had been given back at the village!) and currently lives in the indoor nursery. I am told she goes out to exercise with two other youngsters, Naru and Ampul, and is a very good climber!!
Hopefully i'll be able to meet her face-to-face while i'm working there and then i'll be able to let you know a lot more about her progress.
This is a shared adoption scheme so you can all join in if you like. See the "Orangutan Adoption at Sepilok" link in "how to help" section on the right for more details.
// posted by storri @ 1:43 pm 
