wow, are you serious? sometimes my heart goes out to overweight animals, they were doing a doco on them last month, showed some dolphins that were in terrible shape.
I'm completely serious. She was shaped like a football, almost round. But it is not that unusual with Orangutans- particularly the less active Bornean ones. In the past, and still now in some places they don't have enough climbing equiment or stimulus to exerercise properly, and obesity is the result. Females seem the most prone. Most zoos do make more effort to control it nowadays. Wild female orangs(both species) never look like that of course.
oh that is a shame, yeah no being sexiest or anything but females carry a lot more fat that males of species to suistain childbirth. Perhaps that is why?
oh that is a shame, yeah no being sexiest or anything but females carry a lot more fat that males of species to suistain childbirth. Perhaps that is why?
Also males range over very large areas in the wild so even in captivity tend to be rather more active than the females I think, though I have seen a few horribly fat males in the past too- fortunately with improved enclosure design and better understanding, really obese orangs(both sexes) are much rarer nowadays.
