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"A fascinating firsthand account of the behavior and intelligence of orangutans, Russon's book is also an account of the successes, failures, and politics of orangutan rehabilitation in the forests of Borneo and Sumatra... The book is lavishly illustrated with full color photographs."
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The only great apes found in Asia, these arboreal wizards are by nature elusive and solitary, and inhabit nearly inaccessible tropical rainforests. The tragedy is that orangutans are almost extinct, surviving in the wild only on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra where human influx is rapidly appropriating their habitat.
Based on fifteen years of research, this extraordinary and definitive book focuses on orangutan intelligence and behavior.
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With one hundred color photographs taken by the author during her visits to the rainforests, Orangutans is an absorbing and instructive look at the unusual world of orangutans.
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I wrote this book for anyone interested in other intelligences, in our living relatives on earth, or in orangutans themselves--especially people who don't have the privilege encountering them as free-living beings. My hope is to convey my sense of who orangutans are, how they see the world, and what it's like to meet them equals, on their own terms as much as on ours. It is also to bring home the threats we humans pose to orangutans -- threats so severe that we are on the verge of sending them to extinction. It is only through recognizing the damage we inflict that we stand a chance of protecting them, and it is only through caring enough that we will make the effort to try.
Anne E. Russon
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