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Question: Why does the Centre still feed the Orangutans even though they have been successfully rehabilitated and released ?
Answer: As the 653 hectares of forest does not supply enough wild food for all the orangutans in the Reserve, feeding is still carried out to supplement their diet. The orangutan with its large body has a large appetite and 1 mile square radius of the average rainforest can only support a low population density of about 2.5 orangutans.
Orangutans spend at least 60% of their daylight hours eating and searching for food. Their diet consists of 300 different kinds of fruit such as barks, honey, young shoots, insects and occasional bird egg and small vertebrae. Fruits make up 60% of the orangutan's diet.
(Source: Semenggoh Nature Reserve, Sarawak Forestry Corporation, 24 Jul 2021)
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