When you join Dr. Biruté Mary Galdikas on a visit to Camp Leakey, you never know what will happen. You could follow a wild orangutan for 17 hours, deep in the Borneo rainforest. You could sit on the porch of her house while a wild orangutan walks out of her living room, carrying two coconuts […]
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Forty years after its establishment by Dr. Biruté Mary Galdikas and Rod Brindamour, Camp Leakey has become the main reason for tourists to pay a visit to Tanjung Puting National Park. The orangutans that regularly visit the camp, the many trails that venture deep into the primary rainforest, and the daily supplementary feedings, are a […]
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Born (estimated) 1993 – Died January 11th, 2011 Hangki was a beautiful and extraordinary orangutan. Her calm and gentle demeanor and her soft voice captured the hearts and minds of many people and made her much loved among the OCCQ staff and volunteers. Hangki was paralyzed from the waist down. Despite her severe disability, this […]
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As you read the title of this article, the thought might have occurred to you that an orangutan climbing a tree is not really news worthy. We would normally agree; indeed, if we were to write a news item for every time that an orangutan climbs a tree at the Care Center, there would be […]
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