Police Officer Taken by Crocodile While Defending Tanjung Puting National Park in Indonesian Borneo. Pangkalan Bun, Kalimantan Tengah, Indonesia – (July 31, 2000) – Police Sergeant Ali Maryanto, 37 year-old father of two boys, aged 7 and 9 years, died defending Tanjung Puting National Park’s Sekonyer Kanan River. Sergeant Ali Maryanto was stationed as one […]
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Tom is a handsome and muscular sub-adult male living in Tanjung Puting. He is the son of an ex-captive called Tutut. He is inquisitive and can often be seen on the jetty at Camp Leakey studying arriving kelotoks. When we visited, he kept a good distance away from our kelotok almost all the time. We […]
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In 1987, when I first came to Camp Leakey as an Earthwatch volunteer, there were three sub-adult orangutans in camp: Pola, Yayat, and Kusasi. Two years later, I was in a kelotok which was carrying an Earthwatch team to Kumai on the first leg of their trip home. Suddenly, a speedboat pulled up alongside. It […]
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Pola came to Camp Leakey in the mid-1970s as a young juvenile orphan along with other notables like Princess, Unyuk and Tutut. During that time, Pola joined one of the original sign learning projects I was conducting as a graduate student working with Dr. Galdikas. Like Princess, Pola was given a home-reared environment within which […]
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