updates on our infant adopted orangutans

Name: Mindow
Sex: male
Age: 8.5 yrs
Weight: 25.5 kg (1 October 2009)
Arrival date: 3rd July 2003
Age on arrival: 2.5 years
Previous history: confiscated from a hunter
Care centre: Orangutan Foundation International's Care Centre, Pangkalan Bun, Central Kalimantan, Borneo
Update: April 2010

Mindow loves to play-fight with his orangutan friends and he has two broken teeth. Mindow is very independent now spending little time with his carers preferring to be in the forest. His forest skills are excellent and finds a lot of his own food. Being male, he is so focused on food, he will steal anything he can get his hands on, even if it means a stuggle. And sometimes even though food is available it seems more fun to him to steal!