Perth Zoo is mourning Puan , not only a beloved resident physician but the world ’s oldest Sumatran orangutang . elderly 62 , she has left behind 11 children and 54 descendant , 29 of whom are still living .
Puan , nicknamed the " grand onetime madam of Perth Zoo " , has been a resident of the mental institution since 1968 and had to be put down on Monday following long time - related complication .
She was born in the Sumatran jungles , Indonesia , in 1956 – or so the zookeepers think . Her years was calculated using a combination of old story , notes , and day of the month , which may make her true birthdate even earlier . After being take from the state of nature , she was brought to the Sultan of Jahor ’s private zoo and later adopted by Perth Zoo .
From the sounds of it , she was quite a lineament .
" Puan was a ‘ hands off ’ individual . She was middling aloof , I remember being recount early in my life history , " allege Puan ’s chief zookeeper Martina Hart , who compose her obit forThe West Australian .
" If you were n’t spry with her dinner , or you kept her inside a minute longer than she deem necessary , she would let you know by tap her foundation to make you hurry along . You always knew were you stood with Puan . "
Apparently , she was also a act of a flirt , a great teacher to the younguns , and a devotee of durian fruit .
As she age , the zookeepersnoticedher " eyelashes had greyed , her movement had slow down , and her mind had started to drift . But she remain the materfamilias , the quiet , dignified lady she had always been . Puan demanded and merited respect , and she for sure had it from all her keeper over the years . "
Not only was she an important – and foresighted - term – fixity of Perth Zoo , but she has left behind an incredible legacy in terms of her cistron . The intermediate number of children an orang can bear to have in the wild is four – Puan more than double that issue by present birth 11 meter . Her genetic science are now believed to count for close to 10 percentage of the imprisoned population , which is particularly important because they are an endangered coinage with only14,600 or so individualsleft .
Her 54 posterity are made up of children , grandchildren , and great - grandchildren , and one of them , Nyaru , has been released into the wild to live where his peachy - grandmother first came from .
Puan back in 2016 , when she was given the Guinness WorldRecord for being the oldest hold up Sumatran orangutang in the human beings . No Comment TV / Youtube
