“Sometimes I feel like I’ve chosen the most difficult thing in the world to study,” Cheryl Knott tells me as we sit beneath the rain forest canopy at her orangutan research station in ...

This story appears in the October/November 2016 issue of Nat Geo WILD magazine. Biological anthropologist Cheryl Knott and photojournalist Tim Laman have dedicated their lives to the orangutans of ...

Ten years ago, I set off for Borneo to study orangutans. I knew how closely related they were to humans, but when I actually experienced the orangutans first hand, I found the similarities ...

Habitat loss is by far the greatest threat to orang-utans. Huge tracts of forest have been cleared throughout their range and the land used for agriculture, particularly palm oil plantations. Road ...