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Biruté M.F. Galdikas
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President, Orangutan Foundation International, Los Angeles, California, U.S. Professor of Anthropology, Simon Fraser University, Canada. Author of Reflections of Eden: My Years with the Orangutans of Borneo.

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An illustration of a female Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) with long reddish-brown fur, hanging from tree branches with one arm extended upward and one leg hooked over a branch. A scale bar at the bottom shows lengths of 30 centimeters and 12 inches for size reference.
orangutan
Orangutan, (genus Pongo), any of three species of Asian great apes found in rainforests on the Southeast Asian islands of Sumatra and Borneo. The Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) inhabits large portions of Borneo, whereas the Sumatran orangutan (P. abelii) and the Tapanuli orangutan (P.…
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