Orangutan relaxes during surgery in Indonesia

It’s “Harry and the Hendersons” meets “ER.”

A hulking orangutan lies patiently on an Indonesian clinic’s operating table as a staffer gets to work removing metal pellets — fired by a poacher — from the poor primate’s backside.

The 14-year-old male was rescued Tuesday in northern Sumatra’s Langkat district and taken to the Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Program center in nearby Sibolangit.

Along with Indonesia’s Ministry of Forestry, the center has saved hundreds of the endangered Sumatran orangutans amid a shrinking habitat and a worsening poaching crisis.

Since launching in 1999, it has reintroduced more than 200 into the wild.