APERTURE

摘要

You need a head for heights to survive in the jungle. The orangutan scaling this dizzyingly high tree is searching for figs - and he knows this is a good source. US photographer Tim Laman took this vertigo-inducing photo in Gunung Palung National Park in western Borneo, and won this year's Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition for it. To take it, Laman used ropes to climb the 30-metre-high tree and then spent three days rigging up GoPro cameras, which he triggered remotely when he spotted an orangutan hunting for food. The tree is wrapped by a strangler f ig, which germinated in the tree's canopy and then wound its roots down the trunk. Because orangutans carry a mental map of where the best fruiting trees are, Laman knew that a male he had previously seen nearby might well return.