Hurt trekker hopes mother Orang-utan will not be punished after attack in Indoesnia cuts trip short.
The New Zealand tourist attacked by an orangutan has described the moment he felt the ape's teeth tightening around his knee as he desperately kicked at it with his free leg.
Binula Wickramarachchi, who has returned home after cutting his three-week Indonesian trip short, told the Herald last night that the "frightening" incident had left him with three big puncture marks in his leg, as well as superficial scratches and deep bruising.
A baby orangutan born in a Spanish conservation centre has travelled first class across the English Channel to get special care at a Dorset monkey sanctuary.
Bornean orangutan Kiwi, who is nearly one year old, was rejected by her mother shortly after she was born at Rio Safari Elche in Alicante.
This, and failed attempts for another female orangutan to adopt her, prompted Kiwi’s relocation to Monkey World – Ape Rescue Centre (Europe’s specialist orangutan creche) on November 15.