世界最老蘇門答臘猩猩去世 54個後代生活於歐美等地

The world's oldest Sumatran orangutan, which had 11 children and 54 descendants spread across the globe, has died aged 62, Australian zoo officials said last Tuesday.

澳大利亞動物園官員上週二透露，世界上最老的蘇門答臘猩猩已經死亡，享年62歲，它有11個孩子和54個後代分佈在世界各地。

Puan -- Indonesian for "lady" -- died last Monday at Perth Zoo, where she had lived since being gifted by Malaysia in 1968.

普安--印尼語中的“淑女”--於上週一在珀斯動物園去世，自1968年被馬來西亞贈予，她就一直住在那裏。

"She did so much for the colony at Perth Zoo and the survival of her species," said primate supervisor Holly Thompson.

靈長類動物主管霍莉·湯普森表示：“她爲珀斯動物園的種羣和她物種的生存做了很多貢獻。”

"Apart from being the oldest member of our colony, she was also the founding member of our world-renowned breeding program and leaves an incredible legacy. Her genetics count for just under 10 percent of the global zoological population."

“除了是我們繁殖地最老的成員之外，她還是我們舉世聞名的繁殖計劃的創始成員，她爲世界留下了不可思議的遺產。她的遺傳基因在全球動物種羣中所佔比例略低於10%。”

Puan had 11 children and a total of 54 descendants in the United States, Europe, Australasia and the jungles of Sumatra. Her great grandson Nyaru was the latest individual to be released into the wild.

普安在美國、歐洲、大洋洲和蘇門答臘島的叢林中有11個孩子和54個後代。她的曾孫尼亞魯是最早被放歸野外的一個。

Born in 1956, she was noted by the Guinness Book of Records as being the oldest verified Sumatran orangutan in the world. Female orangutans rarely live beyond 50 in the wild.

出生於1956年的普安，被吉尼斯世界紀錄認證爲世界上最老的蘇門答臘猩猩。雌性猩猩在野外很少能活到50歲以上。