Princess and the Tree
On August 3, 1978, I carried a four-year-old orangutan named Princess from Camp Leakey into the nearby swamp forest. I had arrived…
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Akmad
In 1971, Biruté Galdikas and I embarked on a project, funded primarily by the National Geographic Society and the Louis Leakey Foundation,…
Princess
In 2017, we returned to the rainforests of Kalimantan to search for an orangutan I had known since childhood. Princess was already…
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