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The video has a segment on primatologist Biruté Galdikas and her work with orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) in Borneo. Discusses her lifetime of work and the personal toll it has taken on her. Discusses...

The video has a segment on primatologist Biruté Galdikas and her work with orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) in Borneo. Discusses her lifetime of work and the personal toll it has taken on her. Discusses the loss of orangutan habitat and the problem of poaching and black market sales. Includes still photography from Galdikas's appearances in National Geographic Magazine. Locomotion behaviors shown include knucklewalking and climbing. Play behaviors include solitary play; idle postures include scratching and clinging. Parenting behaviors shown include clinging and carrying. The orangutan segment is the fifth segment on the tape. Other segment topics include: the dangers of keeping big cats as pets, deep sea creatures, efforts to save cheetahs in the wild, helping sandhill cranes migrate, and the timber wolf.

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