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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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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine +. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Colour Photographs (illustrator). First Edition. In these 222 pages, incl. INDEX, the author moves among three orangutan refuges all within Borneo. The three `camps' are designed to repatriate captive orangutans to the wild. In order of appearance the three are Camp Leakey, Wanariset and Post Sinaga. The former is an ecotourist site where ape-human inter-action is a feature, the second promotes socializxation of orangutans with their own species rather than with humans, and the thirs is a toatally wild site where ex-captives are reintroduced to foraging and freedom. TEXT assisted by colopur photographs. LEARN more about :kelotoks, Aming, K6, ORP, Tanjang Puting, cheek-pads, coffee habits, Pongo Pygmaeus, leafstalk, Enggong, extinction, imitation, Sumatra, rainforest, tools, nangka, Sekonyer River, Romeo, termites, and Sariyem. Cond Boards are forest green with gilt lettering on spine only. End-papers are green. D.J. is light green with white lettering. Front cover graphic is a colour photo portrait of the adult female, Kusasi.( I found the imitative tendency of the `pongos' totally fascinating.) D.J. and volume are bright tight and crisp in ALL aspects. No names, marks, creases, stains, nor tears. DECIDEDLY giftable !! Quote (p. 59) : " . was how they begged. Some had a taste for coffee, and of course there was no way they could get it on their own, so if they spotted a human with a mug of coffee, they'd find an empty mug and hold it beseechingly towards the coffee owner, or attempt to `buy' the coffee with . ." Size: Quarto. Seller Inventory # 005048