Alison Cronin, director of Monkey World in Dorset, is backing a Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) public consultation which would see tighter rules for keeping primates.

Now the 12-week-old male has been taken in by the European specialist orangutan creche at Monkey World – Ape Rescue Centre in Dorset, A spokeswoman for the centre said: “Sibu Junior was born ...