From the March 28,1969 issue of LIFE —Vanishing Wildlife: THE THREATENED ORANGUTAN. According to LIFE, “The red-haired orangutan is one of man’s closest relatives. Coop him up in a zoo cage and he reacts in a fascinatingly human way: he just sits there, and gangly-limbed,and stares back morosely. But tiny has been known of what this creature is like in the wild rain forests of Borneo and Sumatra that are his home—tiny except that the orang is speedily fitting extinct. The article featured spectacular images of orangutans made in their natural environment by the great LIFE photographer Co Rentmeester. This image of a baby orangutan in the jungles of North Borneo ran on the cover. (Co Rentmeester—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) #InternationalOrangutanDay #Orangutans
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