takayuki maekawa
jami tarris
jami tarris
evan hambrick
photos by (click pic) takayuki maekawa, cheryl molennor, evan hambrick, and jamitarris of a mother orangutan kissing and nursing a hurt on her child’s finger.
notes evan hambrick, “we share so much with these animals and i don’t think we give them the credit for how much like us they are. humans love to be touched and kissed and the orangutans are no different.” orang hutan, not surprisingly, is actually malay for “person of the forest.”
orangutans are believed to be the most intelligent animals in the world other than humans, and express a depth of emotion to one another with their faces and hands. they are also one of the few animals with a longer childhood dependence on the mother than a human. baby orangs are nursed until they are about six years old.
but orangutans, as mentioned in this post, are a critically endangered species, with habitat loss largely to blame.
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