This amazing project rescues Gibbons (they are apes not monkeys) and rehabilitates them for the wild. Apes learn what to eat from their mothers. Baby's are carried by the Mom for 2 years. They can only go back into nature as a family so the Project starts out as a 'courting' agency as they try to pair them. They pair for life and are apparently very fussy!
For every one Gibbon that ends up on the street for tourists to photograph, about 7 die. The mother is shot and falls with the baby, that may die from the fall. If so they shoot another.
We could only see the apes that will never be put back in the wild for various reasons. This chap was released and came back 4 times, so they decided to let him stay.
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