A Malaysian orangutan sanctuary where baby apes wear nappies, sleep in cots and are cared for by nurses dressed in masks and starched uniforms has drawn the wrath of environmentalists

At Orangutan Island in Malaysia's north, tourists snap photos as they file past large windows looking onto a facility billed as the world's only rehabilitation and preservation facility for the endangered primates

adorable baby orangutans like two-month-old Tuah lie swaddled in nursery sheets and cling to baby rattles

"He is separated from the mother because his hands got entangled in the mother's hair and was unable to breastfeed,"

Tuah lies calmly in his cot with his eyes wide open and hands across his chest, hooked up to cables monitoring his heart beat and oxygen levels, ignoring the passing parade

But the care lavished on the animals,

is lost on environmentalists who say this is no way to treat wild animals facing the threat of extinction