Face to face with orangutans

摘要

Gentle, intelligent and enigmatic, orangutans have inspired BIRUTE MARY GALDIKAS to spend her life among them. Here she reveals her discoveries - and her fears that these great apes may go extinct before we truly get to know them. A large oil painting of an adult male orangutan hangs on my wall.in a blazing crown of red, yellow and orange, he radiates flames as though he was the sun.