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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/double-joy-for-blind-orangutans.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Sumatran orangutan Gober, who is blind in both eyes due to cataracts, with her twin babies in North Sumatra, Indonesia" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/min-double-joy-for-blind-orangutans.jpg" alt="Sumatran orangutan Gober, who is blind in both eyes due to cataracts, with her twin babies in North Sumatra, Indonesia"/></a></p>
<p>Rare twins have been born to blind orangutan parents who are both lucky to be alive.</p>
<p>The babies were born at the Batu Mbelin orangutan quarantine centre in North Sumatra where both their parents are in long-term care.</p>
<p>Their mother Gober lost her sight to cataracts and had to be rescued in 2008 by the Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme, which receives funding from the UK&#8217;s Orangutan Foundation.</p>
<p>Her blindness was forcing her to raid crops, putting her at a high risk of being killed by villagers.</p>
<p>While staff at the centre try to prevent orangutans breeding until after they are released into the wild, they decided that having a baby would improve life for Gober, who is over 40.</p>
<p>The twins&#8217; father Leuser was confiscated as an illegal pet and released fit and well into the wild in a national park, but strayed outside park boundaries and was shot by villagers.</p>
<p>He was found with 62 air rifle wounds, including three pellets lodged in his eyes.</p>
<p>Mother and babies &#8211; a boy named Ganteng, which translates as handsome, and a girl called Ginting &#8211; are doing well and it is hoped they will eventually be released into the wild.</p>
<p>Ian Singleton, director of conservation for the Swiss-based Pan Eco Foundation, said: &#8220;Rather than being bored, Gober now has the full-time responsibility of her infants, not just one but two of them.</p>
<p>&#8220;Twins are not unheard of but they are certainly not common and relatively few zoos will have experience of it. The fact that both parents are blind makes it a doubly special event.&#8221;</p>
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