Jakarta: A picture of an orang utan seemingly offering a helping hand to a man in a pond received a warm reception globally from social media users after a geologist, Anil Prabhakar, posted the picture on his Instagram account. Anil was in Samboja, East Kalimantan, on a tour in an orang utan facility managed by the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation (BOSF). “I saw an orang utan come close to him and just offer him his hand.”It seemed as if the orang utan was saying “May I help you?” to the man, he said. 6, where the female orang utan, Anih, 25, lives. “It shows that orang utan has become dependent on human beings,” Jamartin said.

Source: The Star February 13, 2020 01:07 UTC