Since I arrived in Indonesia I have always known that orang means 'person' and hutan means 'forest' in bahasa indonesia but I had never realised how impressive those forest people were until I saw them for real for the first time in my life today. They are simply amazing creatures with long arms, reddish-brown hair and a human look. We even had the chance to see an imposing flanged adult male and quite a few offsprings. I learnt that the females usually stay with their babies until the age of sevn and that the males are quite independent from the women generally only meeting to mate. They also spend nearly all their life in the trees. I am still stunned by the experience.
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