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August 27, 2001

Orangutan, Indonesia, 1998

Photograph by Tim Laman

"Deep in Borneo, a male orangutan we [anthropologist Cheryl Knot and assistants] call Jari Manis feeds on wild ginger stems as he keeps an eye on a female he's been shadowing. My team of assistants and I track the elusive apes from dawn to dusk, when they bed down in a nest in the trees. Mixing modern science with old-fashioned fieldwork, we are breaking new ground in understanding how wild orangutans have adapted to their rain forest home."

—From "Orangutans in the Wild," August 1998, National Geographic magazine