BANGKOK A run-down department store tucked among Bangkok’s skyscrapers is home to the rooftop Pata Zoo, where nearly 300 animals pace in cages littered with feces, food scraps and trash. Bua Noi, the main attraction at the zoo and the only gorilla known to be in Thailand, has been kept in a cage here […]
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Khao Phra Thaeo Wildlife Sanctuary: The white-handed gibbon, captured as an infant by poachers, was rescued from a grim life amusing inebriated visitors in tourist bars, then spent eight years in a cage at a rehabilitation centre.
Now, this survivor of abuse and trauma lives in the jungle on Thailand s Phuket island, where she was recently seen perched on a tree branch 50 feet above ground as her wild-born mate and their two offspring watched warily from nearby trees.
Hers is a rare success story.
Feeding time at the Gibbon Rehabilitation Project sanctuary in Phuket, Thailand.
Credit:New York Times
Richard C Paddock, The New York Times
Published: 22 Dec 2020 01:33 PM BdST
Updated: 22 Dec 2020 01:33 PM BdST A white-handed gibbon swings on a rope on at Tiergarten Schoenbrunn Zoo in Vienna in this Jan 10, 2012. REUTERS/FILE
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Now, this survivor of abuse and trauma lives in the jungle on Thailand’s Phuket island, where she was recently seen perched on a tree branch 50 feet above ground as her wild-born mate and their two offspring watched warily from nearby trees.