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In the Indonesian language, “orangutan” means “person of the forest”. Of all my orangutan images, I think that this one captures the feeling of that name the most. When you look into the eyes of this adult male orangutan in his prime, you can’t help wondering what he is thinking, and it is totally understandable that humans who encountered wild orangutans in the forest thought of them as the “people of the forest”.