Description
| BO |
| Sex : Male |
| Born : 1987 |
| Status: Permanent Resident – returned after 6 release attempts |
| Born in the wild in 1987, Bo was captured by poachers then sold to a new owner who then donated him to the GRP in 1993. He arrived with filed down teeth, very thin and in bad conditions. After several months in Quarantine, he was paired with Lek and a proudly father of Dao in 2000 and Arun in 2002. In 2003, the family was released into the forest. Though he was very close to his mate and took an active role in fatherhood, Bo somehow abandoned his family in the forest and six times returned to our Rehabilitation Site. The difficult decision was made to keep him at the site, and no longer release him into the wild. Bo is now content next to Tam, who will also never be released back into the wild due to physical deformities. The other members of Bo’s family are surviving exceptionally well in his absence. Bo is now a picky eater and gets a special diet of fruit during morning feed. He is recognisable by his overbite and is often seen grooming Tam from his neighbouring cage. They can both be seen rolling around, taking it in turns to groom one another and it is heart-warming to see Bo helping a gibbon that is truly appreciative of all he does for her. All his life he has known a cage and people and sadly does not want to be in the forest, where he belongs.
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