Seven year old Anthrax is a wild orangutan living a free and “normal” life in the forests of Borneo. Anthrax was born in the wild to Akmad, the first Camp Leakey ex-captive to give birth. Dr Birute Galdikas’ son, Binti, named him. According to Dr. Galdikas, Anthrax is a typical young male. He loves to […]
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Akmad was Dr. Birute Galdikas’ 1st adopted orangutan daughter, having met Akmad only one month after she first arrived in Kalimantan in 1971. Akmad was rescued from a logging camp by Birute where she was being held in a make shift cage, after they killed her mother in front of her. Even though Akmad was […]
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