The plan for Gus is to befriend her with Doris, a process which we have started by spending an hour or so each day next door to Doris, letting the two girls get acquainted by swapping food items, playing mini tugs of war and just gazing at each other. They now seem quite relaxed in each other’s company and we will actually go in with Doris in the next week. We’ll keep you posted!
Once they are good friends, Doris and Gus can live next door to each other and then in months to come we can start taking them out into the forest and teaching them about forest foods and how to gather them. It is a long term project but one that will hopefully result in two semi-wild, contented, safe orangutans who spend their life in the forest but visit the feeding platform for supplementary food and for health checks (which can simply be a visual once over by a keeper).
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