Orangutan has cataract surgery

Contributed by: filbert Wednesday, May 16 2007 @ 01:46 PM CST

In the news today[*1] :

The 19-year-old orangutan named Aman is gradually recovering after the two-and-a-half-hour surgery on both his eyes at the Matang Wildlife Center in Sarawak state on Borneo island, said Sarawak Forestry spokesman Zulkifli Baba Noor.

(Is Medary turning into a simian-blog?  Could be . . . between the chimpanzee and orang news, and little articles about the goodness of peanuts.  All I can say is:  Ook.[*2] )

Also, why can’t we in the U.S. have spokesmen named Baba Noor?

[*1] http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070516/ap_on_re_as/odd_malaysia_orangutan_surgery
[*2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ook_language_(Discworld)