I went to the kitchen and came back to see a baby orangutan clinging to life.

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There was this tiny orangutan from Borneo and caring human beings act as foster parents to orphans whose mothers have been killed. This baby I´m watching has just been found. He is famished and weighs less that half of what she should for her age. Topan, our baby, cannot be helped although she has a fractured hand. She will have to wait until she weighs more. But fortunatly, she has no contagious ailments. Topan can´t live in the nature until she "learns" to be an orangutan. Normally the mothers teach their babies. Human substitute mothers are not perfect. Orangutans live 90% of the time in the top of trees. And human mothers can´t teach them that easily. They even sleep in nests they make in the top of the trees. I didn´t know that until today. I would not have guessed that such big apes had their beds in the top of trees, no matter how sturdy. These documentaries are for me a lot more interesting than those reality programs that are is just about every channel now. I´ll say good night now. I have to learn how coconuts are opened.