How one man raised a young orangutan in the jungles of Borneo.
Just cuddling a baby orangutan is the bucketlist territory for most of us, but Gary Shapiro was lucky enough to parent an orphaned baby orangutan called Princess in Borneo!
Gary was a zoology student doing research on orangutans back in 1978 when Princess moved into his hut after her mum was killed by poachers. What followed was a two-year relationship, which is told in this week’s episode of My Wild Animal Baby.
This story is from the June 22, 2019 edition of What's on TV.
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