A young female orangutan rescued as an infant when her mother was tortured and killed has given birth to a baby of her own - after being returned to the wild.
Orangutan Peni was just three years old when she and her mother strayed into the remote village of Penimaran in West Borneo in 2010 after being driven from their habitat by palm oil plantation developers.
Villagers pelted the mother and baby with rocks and sticks and threw Peni's mother into a pool of water, filling her lungs with liquid, before dragging the pair into a makeshift pen.
A team of rescuers rushed the duo to safety but Peni's mother died soon after and her traumatised infant, who gained her name from the village where she was found.
Over the next four years she underwent intensive rehabilitation to overcome her trauma - entering the centre's 'forest school' to socialise with other young orangutans and re-learn natural wild behaviours like climbing and building nests.
And in September 2014, experts were so pleased with her independence she was able to be released into the protected forest of Mount Tarak.
Peni's rescuers monitored her progress over the years and were delighted when late last year they discovered she was pregnant - with adorable new images showing the now-12-year-old adult orangutan relaxing in the trees with her own baby, named Tarak.
Alan Knight, IAR chief executive, said: 'The birth of little Tarak really does make all the team's efforts to protect and conserve orangutans worthwhile.'
'The fact she has now returned to her natural habitat and had a baby of her own is the ultimate proof of her complete reintegration back into the wild.'
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Orangutan Peni was just three years old when she and her mother strayed into the remote village of Penimaran in West Borneo in 2010 after being driven from their habitat by palm oil plantation developers.
Villagers pelted the mother and baby with rocks and sticks and threw Peni's mother into a pool of water, filling her lungs with liquid, before dragging the pair into a makeshift pen.
A team of rescuers rushed the duo to safety but Peni's mother died soon after and her traumatised infant, who gained her name from the village where she was found.
Over the next four years she underwent intensive rehabilitation to overcome her trauma - entering the centre's 'forest school' to socialise with other young orangutans and re-learn natural wild behaviours like climbing and building nests.
And in September 2014, experts were so pleased with her independence she was able to be released into the protected forest of Mount Tarak.
Peni's rescuers monitored her progress over the years and were delighted when late last year they discovered she was pregnant - with adorable new images showing the now-12-year-old adult orangutan relaxing in the trees with her own baby, named Tarak.
Alan Knight, IAR chief executive, said: 'The birth of little Tarak really does make all the team's efforts to protect and conserve orangutans worthwhile.'
'The fact she has now returned to her natural habitat and had a baby of her own is the ultimate proof of her complete reintegration back into the wild.'
Music: "Ave Marimba" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Source: Daily Mail, IAR Indonesia, Pexels
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/patryn.worldlatestnews
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