Freed Mely the chained orangutan

"After 15 years in shackles, perhaps it was inevitable that when the moment came for rescuers to free Mely the orangutan, no one could find the key to unlock her padlock and chain.
Yet she stood upright on her thin, wasted legs as the team from the British charity arrived by boat at the spot where she had been shackled in Kalimantan, Borneo.
Mely had been held there in unspeakably cruel conditions by a fisherman who shot her mother as a ‘trophy’. He treated Mely as a ‘cute’ pet — much to the amusement of friends, who threw her scraps of unsuitable food."
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