From trauma to triumph – then back to the jungle

Born to be wild: Nabalu the newborn gibbon. — Photo courtesy of GCS

KOTA KINABALU: Born to a couple that were once victims of poaching, it was a birth like no other, kept hush-hush to monitor the infant and to allow his first-time parents to bond with him.

And now, Nabalu (spirit of the mountain) has been revealed publicly, a gibbon believed to be the first in the world to be born in captivity.