{"id":6560,"date":"2017-04-01T11:40:48","date_gmt":"2017-04-01T18:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangutan.com\/?p=6560"},"modified":"2017-04-01T11:40:48","modified_gmt":"2017-04-01T18:40:48","slug":"orangutan-news-the-orangutan-who-escaped-indonesias-blackmarket-pet-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangutan.com\/orangutan-news-the-orangutan-who-escaped-indonesias-blackmarket-pet-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"Orangutan News: The Orangutan Who Escaped Indonesia\u2019s Blackmarket Pet Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6561\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6561\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6561\" src=\"https:\/\/orangutan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/bang-panut-768x512.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangutan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/bang-panut-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangutan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/bang-panut-768x512-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/orangutan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/bang-panut-768x512-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6561\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Krismon in his cage at the time of his confiscation by authorities. Panut Hadisiswoyo, left, founded the Orangutan Information Center, which participated in the operation. Photo courtesy of the OIC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>by Philip Jacobson for Mongabay<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kabanjahe, Indonesia \u2014 Zulbaidah used to take her family\u2019s pet orangutan on road trips. He\u2019d ride in the back with the kids.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was like my own son,\u201d the 55-year-old woman said at her home in this North Sumatran town. \u201cWho wouldn\u2019t love him?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Those were the good times, when the ape, Krismon, was small and cute. But as the years passed, and he grew more mammoth and strong-willed, the family began to use a cage to keep him under control. Eventually they threw away the key.<\/p>\n<p>By June 2016, when authorities confiscated Krismon, then aged around 20, he had been confined to the tiny enclosure for so long, his legs had wasted away to the point he could no longer stand.<\/p>\n<p>He is now relearning to climb and move at a rehabilitation center near Medan, the capital of North Sumatra province. But he lacks the skills to survive in the forest, and his caretakers doubt he can ever return to the wild.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>This excerpt from an article appeared on and is courtesy of Mongabay.com and can be read in its entirety <a href=\"https:\/\/news.mongabay.com\/2017\/03\/the-ape-who-escaped-indonesias-blackmarket-trade-in-pet-orangutans\/\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Philip Jacobson for Mongabay Kabanjahe, Indonesia \u2014 Zulbaidah used to take her family\u2019s pet orangutan on road trips. 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