Orangutan Sits In Same Spot For Days, Then Caretaker Finds Out Why

A Complicated Future

There were still important questions to consider for the future. One day, the gibbon would grow bigger, and gibbons, by nature, were social—they needed the company of their own kind.

“When she’s older,” the vet explained carefully, “we’ll work to slowly and safely reintroduce her back to her own species.”