We've all been there. It seems like a hilarious idea at the time – throw on a sack, pretend you're a ghost, and now you're the life of the party.
But this orangutan's friend is having none of it. He's obviously more of the fallen logs are fun kinda crowd.
The best bit is that this clown just doesn't quit.
This video of an orangutan from Nyaru Menteng rehabilitation center in Borneo figured he'd get a few chuckles from his buddy, who clearly didn't get the joke.
It's often easy to mistaken human-like behavior in animals for human-like intentions, but we can indulge a bit here.
Orangutans, like humans, love to play. And an old bag is just the thing for entertainment.
There is a serious side to this activity, though.
For nearly 20 years the Nyaru Menteng Orangutan Reintroduction Project has rescued orangutans and other protected primates displaced from their range or held as pets and gives them a sort of half-way-house to recover before being returned to a suitable habitat.
By some estimates our close cousins number just over 100,000 individuals in the wild on the Indonesian islands of Borneo and Sumatra, making them an endangered species.
Clearing forest for plantations remains one of the biggest threats to their populations.
So go and watch the little guy again. The video was put online earlier this year, but the orangutan's plight is no less important today.
Besides, some silly ape-business is just what we need right now.
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understand it. My banking career continued in Yogyakarta when I joined in a program funded by the Asian Development Bank (ADB),as the coordinator for a program aimed to help improve the quality of learning and teaching process in private universities in Yogyakarta. When the earthquake stroke Yogyakarta, I chose to join an international NGO working in the area of ?disaster response and management, which allows me to help rebuild the city, as well as other disaster-stricken area in Indonesia. I went on to become the coordinator for emergency response in the Asia Pacific region. Then I was assigned for 1 year in Cambodia, as a country coordinator mostly to deliver developmental programs (water and sanitation, education, livelihood). In 2009, he continued his career as a protocol and HR officer at the U.S. Consulate General in Surabaya, and two years later I joined the Political and Economic Section until now, where i have to deal with extensive range of people and government officials, as well as private and government institution troughout eastern Indonesia.
I am the founder and Editor-in-Chief in Good News From Indonesia (GNFI), a growing and influential social media movement, and was selected as one of The Most Influential Netizen 2011 by The Marketeers magazine.
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