Among the Orangutans
By Evelyn Gallardo

Available at Amazon.com

Among the Orangutans received a starred review in Publisher's Weekly, has won many awards, and is recommended by Smithsonian and National Geographic magazines. It is a biography about Dr. Louis Leakey's third protégé, Dr. Biruté Galdikas, whom the noted paleontologist chose to study the endangered orangutans of Borneo. Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey were Leakey's other famous protégés.

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