Orangutans in the Wild
Photographs by Tim Laman
Text by Cheryl Knott
"In darkness, submerged in water up to my neck, I was plunging through a flooded creek, a creek I had easily jumped over that morning. My husband, Tim, was wading along just a few feet in front of me, while balancing a backpack full of camera gear on his head. He turned and said, ‘Are we in Borneo, or what?’"
Join the husband and wife team of Cheryl Knott and Tim Laman as they study and record the daily life of orangutans in Gunung Palung National Park. Knott and her researchers, supported in part by the National Geographic Society, followed the apes as they soared through the jungle canopy, as they mated and raised children, as they searched for food in lean times and in times of abundance.
NGM 1998/08