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05-04-2017, 02:00 PM
Orangutan kept in a tiny wooden box for two years is finally rescued
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He spent two years shut in a dark wooden box before he was finally rescued.
Kotap, a young four-year-old male orangutan, was found in a box measuring just 10 square feet (1 square metre) when rescuers in Indonesia got to him.
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People from wildlife group, International Animal Rescue (IAR) (https://www.internationalanimalrescue.org/news/indonesian-team-rescue-captive-orangutan-dark-wooden-box), and officials from the West Kalimantan forestry department discovered the animal trapped in a village, kept as a pet.
The man holding him, named Baco, claimed to have been given the orangutan by some people he met in his village, IAR said in a Facebook post. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/05/04/orangutan-rescue-indonesia/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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He spent two years shut in a dark wooden box before he was finally rescued.
Kotap, a young four-year-old male orangutan, was found in a box measuring just 10 square feet (1 square metre) when rescuers in Indonesia got to him.
SEE ALSO: Circus ties endangered tiger down on a table so people can get selfies (http://mashable.com/2017/01/11/chinese-circus-ties-up-tiger/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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The man holding him, named Baco, claimed to have been given the orangutan by some people he met in his village, IAR said in a Facebook post. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/05/04/orangutan-rescue-indonesia/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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