Our fact-check work is supported in part by a grant from Facebook.The bonobo ( Pan paniscus). Thank you for supporting our journalism. You can subscribe to our print edition, ad-free app or electronic newspaper replica here. 8, 2020, Photo of Orangutan Offering Help to Man Wading in Snake-Infested Water is Winning Hearts 9, 2020, Orangutan's helping hand for human, Keralite captures pic 6, 2020, Need a hand? Incredible moment orangutan reaches out to help a conservationist who looked stuck in the river as he cleared snakes from apes' habitat
World Wildlife Foundation, accessed Oct. 8, 2020, This orangutan saw a man wading in snake-infested water and decided to offer a helping hand 11, 2020, More than meets the eye in photo of orangutan ‘offering help’ to man Smithsonian's National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute, accessed Oct. There's no way to know why the orangutan was reaching out. One official said the ape may have been asking for food. Our rating: Missing Contextīased on our research, we rate the claim that a photo shows an orangutan reaching out to help a man MISSING CONTEXT. According to several reputable sources, the photo depicts a warden at a Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation facility who waded into the water to clear snakes, so it was a person known to the ape. The warden didn't accept his hand, and he exited the water after that, Prabhakar said. "I saw an orangutan come very close to him and just offer him his hand." "There was a report of snakes in that area so the warden came over and he was clearing snakes,” Prabhakar said in an interview with CNN. The man is a warden, not a geologist as claimed in the post. But it's wrong about several other details as well.ĬNN's coverage of the viral photo is from February 2020 – not September 2021. The post is off-base, assuming we can know the ape's intentions. "It shows that that orangutan has become dependent on human beings.” Post jumbles some facts "Based on our experience, she could have been asking for food from Syahrul,” Sihite said. There's no way to say for sure why the orangutan reached out, but given the relationship and the ape's experience, Sihite said the ape may have just been reaching out for food.īecause they cannot survive in the wild, the two apes in the facility are dependent on their human caretakers for food and other necessities. The man in the photo, a warden whose name is Syahrul, is one of those caretakers. Jamartin Sihite, CEO of the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation, told The Jakarta Post that Syahrul and Anih had known each other for more than 20 years. They grew up on an “island” created by the facility that is surrounded by roughly 16-foot wide, 6½-foot deep trenches on all sides. Both were separated from their mothers at a very young age, The Jakarta Post reported. The orangutan in the photograph, a 25-year-old female named Anih, lives with another orangutan named Romeo. This interaction occurred at an Indonesian animal conservation facility managed by the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation, CNN reported. However, as science writer and editor Lee Lerner pointed out in the post's top comment, the story behind it isn't so clear-cut. "We could learn a lot from these beautiful creatures."įact check: Viral posts falsely claim animals escaped zoo in New Jersey amid Hurricane Ida "They still care for humans even after we treat them so badly," one user wrote. 
Many commented to say that we could learn a lesson on compassion from orangutans, who are a critically endangered species.
When the photographer uploaded the photo, he wrote this as a caption: ‘In a time when the concept of humanity dies, animals lead us to the principles of humanity.’" “This week CNN released a photo taken by photographer Anil Prabhakar in the forest in Indonesia,” the post begins. "The image shows an orangutan, currently under threat of extinction, while stretching out his hand to help a geologist who fell into a mud pool during his search. The post, which more than 300,000 users shared within a week, says the orangutan was offering to help a geologist who had stumbled into the pool during a field search. 26 Facebook post claiming to tell the story behind a photo of an orangutan reaching out to a man in a pool of water has stirred the emotions of thousands of users. But it's not quite accurate. Watch Video: Coronavirus: Orangutan practices excellent hand-washing technique The claim: Photo shows an orangutan reaching out to help a manĪ Sept.
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