Carrying on from my previous blog highlighting the female orangutans at my research site Sikundur, this week it’s the turn of the males who call the site “home.” I’ve been fortunate enough to encounter a large number of these guys over the past year, perhaps due to the site’s position of the edge of the national park compressing these animals’ home range as they suffer the effects of rampant deforestation across the Leuser Ecosystem.
Credit: James Askew
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