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Is orangutan ‘stretching out his hand to help a geologist who fell into a mud pool’? Not exactly

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Biruté Galdikas's life with orangutans—and the iconic story that helped change their fate

Biruté Galdikas was the third of the so-called Trimates, alongside Dian Fossey and Jane Goodall. She spent thousands of hours in the jungles of Borneo for the first long-term study of orangutans. Her ...
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Birutė Galdikas, primatologist who spent a lifetime studying & defending orangutans, has died at 79

Birutė Galdikas established one of the longest-running field studies of any wild mammal, helping to transform scientific understanding of orangutans and their behavior. Her work combined research with ...