A freak accident during birth causes young mother Dilla to reject her newborn baby, putting its life at risk. Meanwhile, the staff at Nyaru Menteng are hard at work identifying the orangutans with the most advanced forest and social skills to nominate as candidates for release. There's good news as two female orangutans who escaped from Palas Island are tracked down. Elsewhere, low water levels on Kaja have given the island's orangutans an unexpected treat: an artificial beach.

Big changes are afoot for some of the pupils at Orangutan Jungle School, where orphaned orangutans learn the forest skills they need to survive in the wild; four new arrivals join the nursery classes and some familiar faces move up a grade.