Man Arrested After Drugged Orangutan is Found in Indonesian Airport

March 25, 2019

Officers on the Indonesian resort island of Bali found a primate the size of a human toddler curled up in a rattan basket this weekend — in the middle of an international airport.

By Mike Ives

Source The New York Times

HONG KONG — Officers on the Indonesian resort island of Bali found a primate the size of a human toddler curled up in a rattan basket this weekend — in the middle of an international airport.

“At first, we thought it was a monkey,” Dewa Delanata, the head of the quarantine office at Bali’s international airport, told the Jakarta Post newspaper. The officers were afraid to open the basket, he added, because they assumed that the animal “would be aggressive and run loose in the departure area.”