Animal News
Tuesday, 17 January 2012
Overweight orangutan shifts 25kg
An overweight orangutan is starting 2012 much lighter after being rescued by Monkey World Ape Rescue Centre in Dorset.
Oshine the Bornean orangutan has shed an amazing 25kg (a quarter of her body weight) since she was taken to the ape rescue centre in 2010.
Oshine was rescued from a home in South Africa where she had been a pet for 12 years. When she was rescued, she weighed more than double the natural weight of a female orangutan, after being fed sweets and processed food for most of her life.
Oshine arrived at the centre unfit and unhealthy. After moving into a new home with five other orangutans, she has started eating healthily and exercising with her new friends. She has even started caring for an orphaned baby orangutan at the centre. Oshine can now climb, play and enjoy her new level of fitness. Just like humans, it is bad for apes to get too overweight, as they suffer from problems like heart disease.
What do you think? Leave a comment below to let us know!
Please note: All comments are moderated before they go live.
Offensive comments will not be published.
Did you like this? Why not give it a Thumbs Up!
Give this article a Thumbs Up! by logging in
to your account or registering here.
0 Comments
You must be logged in to your account to add a comment about this article.
There are no comments at the moment.
MORE NEWS
RESCUED DOLPHINS RELEASED BACK INTO THE WILD
NEW JERSEY INTRODUCES TEXTING FINE
SAVE OUR BUTTERFLIES WEEK
PEDALLING POOCH BECOMES INTERNET SENSATION
DO TEENAGE BOOKS PROMOTE SWEARING?
FACEBOOK TO CHANGE AGE RULES?
NHS TO OPEN FIRST DANCE INJURY CLINIC
£80 FINE FOR MESSY DOG-WALKERS
BOY RESCUED FROM 270FT DROP
NEW WOODLAND TO BE ESTABLISHED IN DUMBARTON
OLYMPIC TORCHES AUCTIONED ON EBAY
RARE 'RING OF FIRE' SOLAR ECLIPSE IS SEEN ...



