Orangutan of the Month: Robbie

July, 1 2000
Maybe we’re not supposed to have favorites but, just like with people, connections happen before you know it. That’s the way it was with Robbie. For reasons I’ll never know,…

Orangutan of the Month: Somalia

June, 2 2000
The photo on the left shows Somalia as he was when I first saw him in 1994. He had not yet been turned over to the Orangutan Foundation and you…

Orangutan of the Month: Yayat

May, 1 2000
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…

Orangutan of the Month: "Pola"

April, 1 2000
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…

Orangutan of the Month: Ego

March, 12 2000
Photographs and story by Carol Ritchie I first met Ego (pronounced Egg-0) in 1998, one of the many orphaned orangutans being cared for by OFI Indonesian staff. Dr. Galdikas suggested…

Orangutan of the Month: Mohtar

February, 1 2000
Tracy Tannenbaum and Ron Austerlade visited Tanjung Puting in April and September of 1998 and again in April 1999. They fell in love with many of the park’s orangutan residents,…