Web Sites:
Orangutan Facts
http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/Primates/Facts/FactSheets/Orangutans/default.cfm
Find out everything from the geographic distribution of orangutans to their life span to how to adopt orangutans and other endangered species.
Orangutan Foundation International
http://www.orangutan.org
Learn more about Biruté Galdikas' organization and its many conservation projects.
Biruté Galdikas Biography
http://fates.cns.muskingum.edu/~psych/psycweb/history/galdikas.htm
Read more about Biruté Galdikas, renowned primatologist and founder of Camp Leakey.
Ape Cam
http://www.sandiegozoo.org/zoo/apecam.html
Watch orangutans and other apes at the San Diego Zoo.
Red Ape Trail
http://www.redapetrail.com/
Explore one of the few wild orangutan habitats left in the world.
NPR: Orang Metropolis Uncovered
http://www.npr.org/programs/re/archivesdate/2002/nov/orangutans/index.html
Follow scientist Scott Stanley as he discovers a previously unknown orangutan population in Indonesia's East Kalimantan province, on the island of Borneo.
NATURE: Orangutans: Just Hangin' On
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/orangutans/
Explore the complexities of orangutan intelligence, investigate orangutans' use of tools, and find out what's being done to save this species.
Books
Galdikas, B. REFLECTIONS OF EDEN: MY YEARS WITH THE ORANGUTANS OF BORNEO. New York: Little, Brown, 1995.
Galdikas, B. ORANGUTAN ODYSSEY. New York: Harry Abrams, 1999.
Russon, Anne E. ORANGUTANS: WIZARDS OF THE RAIN FOREST. New York: Firefly, 2000.
Spalding, L. A DARK PLACE IN THE JUNGLE. Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin, 1998.
Van Schaik, Carel. AMONG ORANGUTANS: RED APES AND THE RISE OF HUMAN CULTURE. New York: Belknap Press, 2004.
