Birth management and rearing (1997)

Watts, E.

Abstract

Re-introduction of infants to their mothers and other conspecifics is discussed. If infants have to be removed from their mothers, handrearing should be avoided. In many cases infants have been successfully returned to the mother or have been reared by a surrogate mother. The development of training programs ... has enabled staff to teach female orangutans to permit feeding of infants by caregivers.