{"id":143265,"date":"2018-06-19T13:01:04","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T13:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/puan-oldest-known-sumatran-orangutan-dies-in-australia\/"},"modified":"2018-06-19T13:01:04","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T13:01:04","slug":"puan-oldest-known-sumatran-orangutan-dies-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/puan-oldest-known-sumatran-orangutan-dies-in-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Puan, oldest known Sumatran orangutan, dies in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Puan holds a metal bar at Perth Zoo\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/B5C2\/production\/_102103564_perthzoo_puan_creditalexasbury-2.jpg\"\/>Image copyright                  ALEX ASHBURY\/ PERTH ZOO<figcaption>Image caption                                      Puan, 62, was given to Perth Zoo in 1968                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">The world&#039;s oldest known Sumatran orangutan has died in an Australian zoo aged 62, leaving behind 54 descendants.<\/p>\n<p>Puan, described as the &quot;grand old lady&quot; of Perth Zoo, was euthanised on Monday due to age-related complications.<\/p>\n<p>She had been at the zoo since 1968, and was officially recognised by Guinness World Records as the oldest of her species in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>A critically endangered species, Sumatran orangutans rarely reach age 50 in the wild, the zoo said.<\/p>\n<p>Believed to have been born in a jungle in Sumatra, Indonesia, in 1956, Puan left an &quot;incredible legacy&quot; of 11 children and a total of 54 descendants across the US, Europe and elsewhere, the zoo said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Her genetics count for just under 10% of the global zoological population,&quot; primate supervisor Holly Thompson said.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A battle to save Indonesia&#039;s orangutans <\/li>\n<li>&#039;100,000 orangutans&#039; killed in 16 years<\/li>\n<li>One of world&#039;s oldest gorillas dies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&quot;She did so much for the colony at Perth Zoo and the survival of her species.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Some of Puan&#039;s descendants have been released back into the wild in Sumatra, the zoo said.<\/p>\n<figure>                                                                                                       Image copyright                  PERTH ZOO<figcaption>Image caption                                      Zookeepers described Puan as dignified and aloof                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>According to the World Wildlife Fund, there are only about 14,600 Sumatran orangutans.<\/p>\n<p>Puan&#039;s chief zookeeper wrote an obituary published in The West Australian newspaper on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Over the years Puan&#039;s eyelashes had greyed, her movement had slowed down and her mind had started to wander,&quot; Martina Hart wrote.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;But she remained the matriarch, the quiet, dignified lady she had always been.&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright ALEX ASHBURY\/ PERTH ZOOImage caption Puan, 62, was given to Perth Zoo in 1968 The world&#039;s oldest known Sumatran orangutan has died in an Australian zoo aged 62,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":143266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}