India, Feb. 15 -- The animals has been ill for quite some time and its health worsened recently
The country's only orangutan, 'Binny', in Odisha's Nandankanan Zoological Park, has been ill since more than a year as she has been suffering from a pouch wound in her throat. The zoo is located at Barang, on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar.
"Binny, who is 41 years of age, was brought to Nandankanan from Pune's Rajiv Gandhi Zoological Park on November 20, 2003, when she was 25," Saroj Sahoo, the veterinary assistant surgeon of the zoo said.
"She had been brought to Pune from Singapore. We are trying our best to save her. The normal life span of an orangutan is around 40. Hence, we are against the use of anaesthesia to treat her, as it could then ...