Asia's wildest places, from the Siberian wilderness to the coral seas of the Indian Ocean.
Here’s a question for you: how do you film a large, dominant, and allegedly aggressive male orangutan in thick, murky peat swamp forest, where humans get tangled and bogged down, and visibility is obstructed by thousands of leaves, vines, and twigs, all whilst using a huge telephoto lens mounted on a heavy camera and tripod?A telephoto lens requires considerable distance between the lens and its subject to achieve focus.
Gizmo’s mysterious behaviour, however, had proven difficult to capture clearly. Whether it was due to poor visibility, or his tendency to vanish into the understory, Gizmo always had the upper hand. The little footage we had managed to capture was great, but we wanted more of it. No other orangutan in this forest behaved this way. What triggered his temper so easily? Panicked, and looking for clues, I noticed a pile of fermentingApologetically, I backed off. That’s when I saw his stance relax. His hair flattened and he turned his back to me. Gizmo dropped from his branch, scanned the ground for fallen fruit, and walked into the bush. Glancing back at me over his shoulder, he appeared to be perfectly calm. He wasn’t going to attack me without reason.
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