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Singapore Mourns: the World Celebrity, 50-year old Female Orangutan has Died

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A 50-year old female orangutan, named Ah Meng, that a long time ago became a point of interest, has died in the Singaporean zoo. Every visitor had a possibility to have a cup of tea with the “patriarch of Singaporean zoo.”

“We are in the deep mourning because of the decease of Ah Meng. I’m sure that her memory will always dwell with all those, who met her. And this is her biggest contribution to the preservation of wildlife” – said the head of the ecological movement of Singapore Fanny Lai. As announced by the chief inspector of the zoo Alagappasamy, on Monday the numerous visitors will have the chance to take leave of their favorite orangutan, and after that there will be held a memorial service and the funeral. In literal translation from Malay, “orang utan” means “a woodland man.”

In the year 1982, the extraordinary Ah Meng, distinguished because of her intelligence, became the “talk-show hostess” of the morning television “Breakfast with an Orangutan.” Her guests on television were Britain’s Prince Philip and Michael Jackson. In all her long by monkey standards life she filmed in dozens of movies about journeys in the Borneo jungle. And in the year 1992 she became the only representative of the animal world honored with the title of the Ambassador of the Singapore National Council on the Tourist Development. All the leading tourist publications have put her photos in their pamphlets.

There are only about 7.3 thousands of representatives of this species of apes left in the wild. Once, their habitat included the biggest part of South-Eastern Asia, but in course of time it considerably reduced due to the unmerciful hunting and deforestation.

Today orangutans can still be met on the Borneo Island (Kalimantan).

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Article Submitted On: February 10, 2008