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Blind Sumatran orangutan parents give birth to healthy twins at North Sumatran rescue centre. The twins were born in January 2011 at the Batu Mbelin orangutan quarantine centre near Medan in North Sumatra where both adults are in long term care, after staff lifted their normal breeding ban to improve quality of life for elderly Gober, now well over 40.
The mother, Gober, is an elderly female, probably well over 40 years old, who is blind in both eyes due to cataracts. Father Leuser, confiscated as an illegal pet and released fit and well into the wild in Bukit Tigapulah National Park, strayed outside park boundaries and was shot by villagers. He was found with 62 air rifle wounds with three pellets lodged in his eyes.