Climbing into the secret world of an ancient Bornean rainforest

A female orangutan forages for ripe figs in the rainforest canopy of Gunung Palung National Park in Indonesia’s West Kalimantan Province. The park’s 417 square miles support about 2,500 of the critically endangered apes and thousands of tree species.

2024-04-12    

Once the guys hauled me as high as they could, the rest of the climb was on me. It was agonizingly slow, nothing like the easy scramble I’d seen other primates make into the treetops. As I inched up the rope, my arms ached, my left sock squished with blood from a leech bite, and I was marinating in sweat.

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