To celebrate Belayan’s 12th birthday this month, I thought I would take this opportunity to allow you to get to know our 3 orangutans a little bit better and what it’s like to work with the smartest of the smart. All of the orangs we have at WWP are Bornean Orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus), native to…
Hello everyone! In this week’s blog I want to talk about one of my favourite primate species, not only are they on my favourite list, I also have the privilege to work with them here at Wingham Wildlife Park. Last week on August 19th there was a special day to celebrate them; International Orangutan day!…
For my blog this month I’m happy to announce that our orangutan Molly is settling in very well. Plus as you may well have heard she has been joined by 3 other Orangs. She is sharing her enclosure with Jin a 10-year-old male orang. He has come to us from Monkey World and in the…