JCS LivestockJCS Livestock helps in Oshine rescue
JCS are proud to have helped in the transfer of Oshine the Orang-utan from South Africa to Monkeyworld in Dorset earlier in the year. The well publicised arrival of the Orang-utan was in the pipeline for the last 2 years, with Oshine’s previous owner anxious to help Oshine to live a more natural lifestyle. Oshine was being kept as a pet and this meant that between her diet and her sedentary lifestyle she became over double her natural weight and lacks the social side of her natural behaviour.
In order for her to cope well with the trip she was acclimatised to her flight cage over time in South Africa enabling her to get used to its size and her new keepers also went out to Johannesburg to learn her behaviours and become friends. These sorts of things can make a huge difference when transporting large animals, since keeping stress to a minimum is important for any overweight animal and is imperative for such a delicate endangered species. Following the 10.5 hour trip from Johannesburg she arrived at Heathrow at the end of August, JCS helped to clear her through customs then whisk her off to her new home in Monkeyworld in one of our specialist livestock transport vehicles.
In her new home, despite being an adult, she is currently living with the baby orang-utans at the centre in order to learn to socialise and now that she is at the centre the keepers can organise her diet and give her exercise, in the hope that she’ll soon lose her tag of “Largest Orang-utan in Britain”. The centre is hoping that as she matures she’ll graduate into a breeding group to help with the critical work in the captive breeding of this endangered species.
JCS Livestock is proud to continue to work with Monkeyworld and we wish Oshine all the best with her diet! Please see the links below for more information on the breeding program and Monkeyworld’s excellent work.
Links:
European Endangered Species Breeding Programme
