Barang: For the animal lovers of India it is certainly shocking news. India’s only one orangutan, Binny, is no more. She died in Nandankanan Zoological Park here at 9.40pm Wednesday night. She was 41. With her death, the species has ceased to exist in the nation.
Prolonged illness is attributed to her death. However, Nandankanan Zoological Park, deputy director, Jayant Das said that the actual cause of her can only be ascertained from the autopsy report.
Veterinary doctors of OUAT were treating her for a throat infection caused by a wound for the last two years. They were doing so after conferring with their counterparts in England and Singapore.
OUAT’s Professor Niranjan Sahoo and Chief of Surgery Dr Indramani Nath and their team were treating the animal.
In the last couple of days, Binny in her enclosure No-60 (B) was mostly asleep and completely inactive.
Binny was only 25 years old when she was brought from Pune’s Rajiv Gandhi Zoological Park to Nandankanan, November 20, 2003.
PNN