Chobindo was a great ape, everybody said so:
“Chobindo? Oh come on — nice guy!”
“Chobindo? He helped me get my cat out of that tree!”
So nobody was more surprised than Chobindo (Choby to his closest friends) when deep in his homeland rainforest on Borneo, he was assaulted, netted and drugged. What did he do to deserve such treatment?
When he came to, Chobindo was en route to Thailand. The passage was not something he would care to repeat, and when he arrived, his captivity got even worse.
Chobindo was a peaceful orangutan — in Malay “orangutan” means man of the forest, but don’t be fooled — they are much more peaceful and gentle creatures than humans. They are intelligent, and in Chobindo’s case, it was lucky that he was, because his captors would not have had much use for him if he hadn’t been.
They trained him in the Thai art of kickboxing, and within a few months of learning his new martial skill, Chobindo was pitted against other orangutans in the ring.
Like great orange gladiators, Chobindo and the others would fight until one or the other was knocked out. It was hardly the freewheeling, arboreal lifestyle he was used to.
Until one day, Chobindo got an idea … what happens if I eat my boxing gloves.
When he got better, Choby had an even better idea: what if he turned on the humans getting them to fight?
Inspired by:
Trade in 1000 Orangutans Yearly | Wikipedia article | Thai boxing
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