A male orangutan on the Indonesian portion of Borneo died after being shot at least 130 times with an air gun and apparently being stabbed and clubbed in the second known killing of a critically endangered orangutan this year. A statement from the Centre for Orangutan Protection said the orangutan died early Tuesday. An X-ray showed at least 130 air gun pellets in its body, including more than 70 in its head, the centre said. "The 130 pellets within the body of a primate is a new record, the most ever," he said. In mid-January, an orangutan was found decapitated and shot more than a dozen times with an air gun in Central Kalimantan, environmental news website Mongabay reported.

Source: CBC News February 07, 2018 15:22 UTC